Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. spying on others having sex in public spaces, usu. parked cars.

1993		J. Green It: Sex since Sixties 75: Then there’s dogging; it goes on in carparks. People drive up in their car and watch other people screwing.
1999		Roger’s Profanisaurus 3 in Viz 98 Oct. 11: dogging v. To wander about at night on the pretence of walking a dog, but actually for the purpose of watching young couples have sex in cars.
2003		www.dogging-central.com 🌐 What is dogging? Public sex, usually outdoors, that sometimes involves the voyeurs joining in. Though dogging started in the UK, it is spreading very quickly across the world.

2. having sex with strangers in public spaces, often in or outside parked cars.

2003		www.dogging-central.com 🌐 What is dogging? Public sex, usually outdoors, that sometimes involves the voyeurs joining in. Though dogging started in the UK, it is spreading very quickly across the world.
2011		P. Hensher King of the Badgers 132: [P]eople who went to car parks in quiet places, all over the country, and had sex on other people's car bonnets with other people's wives. It was called dogging.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 727: [S]he repeated to herself and anyone who’d listen the litany ‘Death goes dogging everywhere’.

3. (US) offering sex in return for drugs.

1989

(con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 136: doggin performing sex acts for money (usually said of a teenage girl).

4. (US) philandering.

1993		Lerner et al. Dict. of Today’s Words.
1997		Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 408: He tells her [...] that he’s done all his dogging, that he’s here for her and the baby.