daggering

1. 1
   noununcountable

   A dancehall dance in which dancers simulate dry sex in time with the beat of the music.

   The music video was criticized for its explicit daggering.

   Daggering drew a crowd at the street party, though some of the older neighbors complained.

   Note

   It works both as a mass noun for the style (criticized for its explicit daggering) and as a count noun for a single bout. Jon Caramanica, writing in 2009, called it a shameless, controversial dancehall maneuver built on rapid-fire pelvic thrusts. The dancers themselves are said to be daggering, in the verb's dancing use.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of dagger.

   The knight lunged forward, daggering his opponent through a gap in the armor.

   Two dancers were daggering on top of the speaker box when the police arrived.

   Note

   One spelling covers the verb in progress after be and the gerund that names the action. It serves two verbs that behave differently: stabbing takes an object (daggering his opponent), while the Jamaican dancing use stands alone (two dancers were daggering). As a gerund it sits close to a single stab, the countable noun with the plural daggerings.

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