Word.ws English Dictionary

loopholing

loopholing is the present participle and gerund of loophole.

Meaning of loophole

Verb

loophole (third-person singular simple present loopholes, present participle loopholing, simple past and past participle loopholed)

  1. (transitive) To prepare a building for defense by preparing slits or holes through which to fire on attackers
    • The lower windows were barricaded, and the whole building loopholed for musketry fire.1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard
  2. (transitive) To exploit (a law, etc.) by means of loopholes.
    • Abroad they had developed loopholing the law into an art; in Israel they jettisoned loopholing for ignoring the law wherever possible. Obeying laws was for naive fools.1988, Macabee Dean, The Ashmadai Solution: A Surrealistic Extrapolation of a Gentle Genocide

See all 4 meanings of loophole

Questions about loopholing

What is loopholing the present participle and gerund of?
Loopholing is the present participle and gerund of loophole.

Words near loopholing in the dictionary

  1. loopfuls
  2. loophole
  3. loopholed
  4. loopholery
  5. loopholes
  6. loopholing
  7. loophound
  8. loopie
  9. loopier
  10. loopiest
  11. loopily

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: loopholing (page history and authors); loophole (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “loopholing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/loopholing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.