pubbing

PUB-ing/ˈpʌbɪŋ/

2 meanings of pubbing

1
nounBritishuncountable
The practice of regularly going to pubs.
Student life in the town revolved around football, pubbing and the odd lecture.
His pubbing days were over once the twins arrived.
Note
British speakers use it for a habit rather than a single night out, so it takes no a and no plural: a weekend of pubbing, never a pubbing. It belongs to relaxed talk about social life. The same spelling is the verb's -ing form, the one heard in going out pubbing.
2
verbcolloquial
Present participle and gerund of pub.
A few of us are going pubbing after work on Friday, if you want to come along.
The small press is pubbing three debut novels this fall.
Note
Two informal verbs share this form. The drinking one takes no object and usually follows go or be out: we're going out pubbing tonight. The other is a clipped publish and does take one, so a small press is pubbing a debut novel. Only the publishing verb has something being produced, and that object tells the two apart.

pubbing is a form of pub

pub, verb: To go to one or more public houses, or pubs. Full entry

Forms: pubpubs he/she/itpubbing -ing formpubbed past tense, past participle
Spelling: pub → pubbing: double the b, add -ing

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