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duetting

American  
[doo-et-ing, dyoo-] / duˈɛt ɪŋ, dju- /

noun

Animal Behavior.
  1. turn-taking by two birds in the execution of a song pattern.


Etymology

Origin of duetting

duet + -ing 1

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If his defining characteristic weren’t competence, Piggy could easily insert him into a cover of “Manchild” instead of duetting with Carpenter in a performance of “Islands in the Stream.”

From Salon Feb. 28, 2026

Instead she will be duetting on the Tracy Chapman song that Boyzone took to number two in the charts, Baby Can I Hold You.

From BBC Dec. 30, 2025

And she's spent the last six years duetting with some of pop's biggest stars, from Miley Cyrus to Noah Kahan, while curating her annual Girls Just Wanna festival in Mexico.

From BBC Oct. 23, 2025

The extended-jam romp through the band’s best-known hit poured gasoline on a fire that kept raging through an unforgettable encore that began with Gahan and Gore duetting on a ghostly “Waiting for the Night.”

From Seattle Times Nov. 27, 2023

When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, and claretting with your Hibernians of bothPg 350 sexes, let me have a line from you.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

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