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)
You don't look as if you had come to that—though it's queer the sort of fellows you do meet piking sometimes.
From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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)
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
I had been piking along and while I was giving my little firm entire satisfaction, I was not pleasing myself with what I was doing.
From Tales of the Road by Crewdson, Charles N. (Charles Newman)
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