cuckooing

English

Verb

cuckooing

  1. present participle and gerund of cuckoo

Noun

cuckooing (countable and uncountable, plural cuckooings)

  1. The call of a cuckoo.
    • 1882, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal:
      […] the mistaken idea that wagtails and hedge-warblers feed the young cuckoos they bring up, long after they leave the nest, whenever they hear their cuckooing, […]
  2. (UK) A form of crime in which the home of a vulnerable person is taken over by a criminal gang and used by them as a base for their activities.

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