hot-doggingn.
/ˈhɒtˌdɒɡɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhɑtˌdɑɡɪŋ/ 1. U.S. colloquial. The action of buying or eating a hot dog; (also) the selling of hot dogs.
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1917 Boston Globe 17 Oct. 4/7 Draftees in the depot brigade buy 2400 frankforts each day... Going hot-dogging is quite the thing with these men.
1962 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 19 Sept. 18/2 How to eat a hot dog... It would be unfair locally to choose those candidates most adept at hot-dogging, as we like to call the custom.
2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 9 Apr. a12/4 The Guajardos manage their two-wheeled stainless-steel hot-dog cart just on weekends... For others, hot-dogging is a stopgap.
2. slang (chiefly North American and Australian). The action of showing off or boastfully displaying one's abilities or accomplishments; spec. (esp. of a surfer) performing with ostentatious skill. Cf. hot dog n. 2a.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > types of
body surfing1908
hot-dogging1929
kamikaze1963
rollercoasting1968
boogie boarding1978
longboarding1982
kiteboarding1996
1929 Manitoba (Winnipeg) Free Press 23 Nov. 1/8 Unpunished crimes... Dieting. Hot dogging. Shaving the back of the neck.
1935 Big Spring (Texas) Herald 26 July 8/2 Nowadays the New Dealers are stepping out. Most publicized hot-dogging is their week-ending at the exclusive Jefferson Island Club.
1959 J. Bloomfield Know-how in Surf 68 ‘Hot-dogging.’ This means to ‘zig-zag’ the board from one side to the other.
1977 Sunday Times Mag. (Perth, Austral.) 9 Jan. 40/1 ‘Hot-dogging’—or freestyle skiing, as the po-faced professionals prefer to call it—is sweeping the ski-slopes.
2007 Wichita (Kansas) Eagle (Nexis) 16 Sept. d9 He did do a little hot-dogging by tossing the ball between his legs after he was in the end zone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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