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piking

British  
/ ˈpaɪkɪŋ /

noun

  1. the sport of fishing for pike

  2. slang the practice of deriving sexual pleasure from watching strangers have sex in parked cars and other secluded but public places

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He was so absorbed that he did not see me, nor the two helmets piking above my shoulder.

From The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott

When the family kicked me out for marrying the finest girl that ever lived, my father cut me off with a piking allowance which I told him to put in the church plate.

From The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life by Charles Klein

I had a hunch all along that you'd both come piking along sometime to-night or to-morrow, and after this, I refuse to worry in any degree about you.

From Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs by Homer Randall

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 William Senior

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 Harry Castlemon

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