doughnutting
- 1Present participle and gerund of doughnut. Use this form for the action happening now or as a name for the activity.
The fans were doughnutting the singer, standing in a tight ring around her as she walked out.
Her friends kept doughnutting the speaker, sitting close all around her so the half-empty room looked full on TV.
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- 2Cheating on train fares by buying tickets only for the start and end of a journey.
Like paying for the first and last parts of a bus ride but sneaking through the middle for free.
She got fined for doughnutting after an inspector checked her tickets on the train.
Doughnutting only works if no one checks your ticket in the middle of the trip.
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doughnutting is a form of doughnut
doughnut, verb: To gather round someone or something, often to make a speaker look well supported. Full entry
- Forms
- doughnutdoughnuts he/she/itdoughnutting -ing formdoughnutted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- doughnut → doughnutting: double the t, add -ing
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Origin
From the word doughnut. On the London Underground, the area a ticket covers looks like a doughnut, with a hole in the middle.