piking
Britishnoun
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the sport of fishing for pike
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slang the practice of deriving sexual pleasure from watching strangers have sex in parked cars and other secluded but public places
Example Sentences
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I don't want anybody up here piking around just because I took a double header into space.
From Tom Slade at Black Lake by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)
But I'll never go piking off through the country alone so long as I know what I am doing.
From Rodney The Partisan by Castlemon, Harry
Sometimes the enthusiasts are piking even in February, getting fish from 2 lb. to 20 lb., which Dr. Henshall, the well-known author and naturalist, pronounces true Esox lucius.
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by Senior, William
Would like to see him begging his bread, would you, or piking in the bucket-shops for five-dollar bills!
From Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by Lorimer, George Horace
It’s been done, though, by little, pettifogging shysters, by piking real-estate crooks—thousands of parcels of property scattered all over the United States have been filched in that manner.
From 'Firebrand' Trevison by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)
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