Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) to work as a disc jockey; thus DJing/deejaying n., adj.

1987		D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 137: He began dee-jaying at house parties.
1990		R. Doyle Snapper 194: He’s upstairs doin’ his DJin’.
1999		Indep. Rev. 6 Nov. 8: We’d deejayed together on my Radio 1 programme.
2000		Hip-Hop Connection Jan. 76: His Dr Octopus style of deejaying.
2000		Observer Mag. 11 June 30: When I started DJing, I always felt I had something special.
2006		thelondonpaper 20 Nov. 25: The DJ-ing godfather plays a special set at the Jazz Cafe tonight.
2008		Indep. (London) 19 Mar. 35: Dread’s innovative DJ-ing had a wide influence.
2011		IOL News 9 Nov. 🌐 I had a friend called DJ Mpulo [...] and that is how I got into DJing.
2012		J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) 139: He was wearing fuck-all but a T-shirt with a monkey DJ-ing on the back!