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hamstering

hamstering is the present participle and gerund of hamster.

Meaning of hamster

Verb

hamster (third-person singular simple present hamsters, present participle hamstering, simple past and past participle hamstered)

  1. (ambitransitive) To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.
    • Probably the city government knew that without that hamstering half the city would starve and they somehow got the police to lay off. It was in the little stinky one-horse towns that you had all the trouble.1974, Phyllis Knight, Rolf Knight, A Very Ordinary Life, page 43
    Synonyms:
    stash

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Questions about hamstering

What is hamstering the present participle and gerund of?
Hamstering is the present participle and gerund of hamster.

Words near hamstering in the dictionary

  1. hamster-wheels
  2. hamstered
  3. hamsterer
  4. hamsterers
  5. hamsteries
  6. hamstering
  7. hamsterization
  8. hamsterkind
  9. hamsterless
  10. hamsterlike
  11. hamsters

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