dirking

verb

present participle of dirk
as in gimleting

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  1. thrusting
  2. riddling
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  • Amanda and her teenage daughter Sarah (Florence Hunt) visit the older couple’s London home one morning, shocked to open their bedroom door to find Martin on top of Leslie, thrusting away.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
  • School Pictures is doing its part to maintain that reputation by thrusting the space into the very Zeitgeist-y conversation around the city’s famously byzantine school system.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026
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  • After riddling the vehicle with bullets and receiving backup from the 400 Mawozo gang, the gunmen set the vehicle on fire with an explosive device, several sources told the Herald.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
  • But asteroids and comets have also bombarded Mercury, riddling it with impact craters, much like the pockmarked surface of Earth’s moon.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of riddling
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“Dirking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dirking. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

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