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figure-eighting

figure-eighting is the present participle and gerund of figure-eight.

Meaning of figure-eight

Verb

figure-eight (third-person singular simple present figure-eights, present participle figure-eighting, simple past and past participle figure-eighted)

  1. To move or cause to move in a figure eight pattern.
    • For two minutes we figure-eighted back and forth across the face of the mountain and then popped out right beside the sidewalk café.1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 61

Questions about figure-eighting

What is figure-eighting the present participle and gerund of?
Figure-eighting is the present participle and gerund of figure-eight.

Words near figure-eighting in the dictionary

  1. figure-casters
  2. figure-eight
  3. figure-eight hitch
  4. figure-eight hitches
  5. figure-eighted
  6. figure-eighting
  7. figure-eights
  8. figure-head
  9. figure-heads
  10. figure-hugging
  11. figure-of-4

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