Meaning of cuckooing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The call of a cuckoo.
   countable, uncountable
2. 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.
   UK, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“[…] 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, […]”

“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.”

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