How to pronounce“cuckooing”in English
adjsurviving on crisps. It's called cuckooing, where vulnerable people have their homes taken over by criminals for illegal activity.
The most common form of cuckooing involves drug dealers or gang members taking control of someone's home and using it to store or sell drugs.
It can begin with offenders appearing friendly, building trust with someone who may be vulnerable or at risk.
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Definitions of “cuckooing”
The call of a cuckoo.
“[…] the mistaken idea that wagtails and hedge-warblers feed the young cuckoos they bring up, long after they leave the nest, whenever they hear their cuckooing, […]”
A form of crime in which the home of a vulnerable person is taken over by a criminal gang and used as a base for their activities.
“The specified criminal activity includes the types of criminal activity that cuckooing is typically used to facilitate, for example, drugs offences, sexual offences and offensive weapons offences.”
present participle and gerund of cuckoo