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kerbing

kerbing is the present participle and gerund of kerb.

Meaning of kerb

Verb

kerb (third-person singular simple present kerbs, present participle kerbing, simple past and past participle kerbed)

  1. (UK, transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb.
  2. To take a dog to the kerb for the purpose of evacuating their bowels.
    • I was fidgeting a bit, because three dogs were sniffing at my ankles in an interested fashion. They were going out to be kerbed[.]1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35

Noun

kerbing (countable and uncountable, plural kerbings)

  1. A strip of kerb.

Forms of kerbing

pluralkerbings

Questions about kerbing

What does kerbing mean?
Kerbing means a strip of kerb.
What is kerbing the present participle and gerund of?
Kerbing is the present participle and gerund of kerb.
What part of speech is kerbing?
Kerbing is a noun.
What is the plural of kerbing?
The plural of kerbing is kerbings.

Words near kerbing in the dictionary

  1. Kerbela
  2. Kerber
  3. Kerberoasting
  4. Kerberos
  5. Kerbers
  6. kerbing
  7. kerbings
  8. kerblam
  9. kerblammed
  10. kerblamming
  11. kerblammo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kerbing (page history and authors); kerb (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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