• Goating

    Full definition of goating

    Noun

    goating

    (plural goatings)
    1. A scapegoating
    2. An event at a fraternal organization, derived from scapegoating
      • 1898, The Sigma Chi Quarterly: The Official Organ of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, page 135The field has been worked over very thoroughly and the spring " goatings " will not be very numerous.
      • p. 1905, Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal, page 345With soirees, parties, germans and goatings, our time has passed away only too quickly
      • 1912, Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, page 420Balls', teas, goatings and baseball games follow one another in rapid succession.
      • 1999, Susan Tyler Hitchcock, The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History, page 108Phi Delta Phi, staged annual "goatings," in which students caricatured professors mercilessly.

    Verb

    present participle

    1. Present participle of goat
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