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piking

/ 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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Example Sentences

Judges can call up a host of data that reveal, via the computer-generated skeleton of the gymnasts, the precise deviation of the body from the pommel horse, the piking angle of a body on a vault, the time that an athlete holds an element on still rings and so on.

I kept piking my butt out or curling my shoulders forward to “save” myself.

While a panel of heartless elite judges might fault her on beam for, say, not quite piking her piked salto enough, or failing to place her lifted leg in the exact passé position during her double pirouette, there was not a college deduction to be found in those sets.

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“There’s no splash, but it looks like the water is boiling. Like there’s a wrestling match going on under there. . . . What’s happening is the divers are going in and curling up. Once their shoulders are in the water, they’re piking, so their trunk rolls, their back is down, and their back creates a lot of suction.”

It was only when that piking, swiveling aerialist Biles completed her final tumbling pass in the floor exercise that their arms finally went up in triumph and their mouths opened with elation.

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