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Definition: Stalking |
StalkingAdjective1. Moving silently and deliberately; especially pursuing stealthily and persistently; "we watched the stalking tiger approach his prey"; "a stalking specter on the castle walls at midnight". Noun1. A hunt for game carried on by stalking or waiting in ambush. 2. The act of following prey stealthily. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stalking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: StalkingSynonyms: stalk (n), still hunt (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Examples are a fan stalking a celebrity, somebody stalking an ex-lover who he or she wants back, and other cases of non-reciprocal love.
The legality of the practice is defined differently under different jurisdictions, some define the act as it stands as illegal, some only define stalking illegal once it becomes threatening or endangers the one being stalked.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stalking."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ambush | Ambush, ambuscade; stalking horse; lurking hole, lurking place; secret path, back stairs; retreat; (refuge). |
Government | Politician, activist; candidate, aspirant, hopeful, office-seeker, front-runner, dark horse, long shot, shoo-in; supporter, backer, political worker, campaign worker; lobbyist, contributor; party hack, ward heeler; regional candidate, favorite son; running mate, stalking horse; perpetual candidate, political animal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stalking |
| English words defined with "stalking": ambush ♦ deerstalking ♦ stalk, stalking-horse, still hunt, still-hunt. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, Homer, don't start stalking people again! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Are you stalking me? (Van Wilder; writing credit: Brent Goldberg; David Wagner) I guess I should be flattered by your stalking. (Happy, Texas; writing credit: Ed Stone; Mark Illsley) What is stalking nowadays, like, the third most popular sport among men? (Angel; writing credit: Letcia Dornelles) | |
Lyrics | They can still see his headless body stalking through the night (Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon & David Lindell c. 1976 Zevon Music, BMI) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Polar bear - Ursus maritimus - appears to be stalking walrus - in fact was running from helicopter noise. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A great egret stalking its lunch amongst new cypress shoots. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Women | Singapore | There are no specific laws prohibiting stalking or sexual harassment. (references) |
Japan | Through June police received 9,142 stalking complaints; they arrested 66 persons and issued 453 warnings between November 2000 and May. (references) | |
South Africa | There is an extremely high rate of domestic violence, including physical, sexual, emotional, and verbal abuse, as well as harassment and stalking of former partners. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | There's a difference between following Jesus and stalking him. |
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| "Stalking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 77.46% of the time. "Stalking" is used about 142 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 77.46% | 110 | 30,952 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.79% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.82% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.82% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 2.11% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 142 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "stalking": deer stalking ♦ stalking horse. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "stalking": stalking-horse. | |
Ending with "stalking": camera-stalking, deer-stalking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "stalking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pretekst (come off, pretext, stalking horse), kalë gjahtari (stalking horse), gjueti drerësh (deer stalking), gjah për drerët (deer stalking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حيلة (artifice, deceit, device, dodge, expedient, fetch, finesse, fraud, gag, imposition, makeshift, monkey business, ploy, prank, ruse, sleight, stalking horse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, twist, wile), حصان التمويه (stalking horse), ذريعة (cloak, expedience, expediency, plea, pretence, pretension, pretext, resource, stalking horse, subterfuge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | претекст (alibi, color, colour, come off, excuse, peg, plea, pretence, pretense, pretext, put off, salvo, stalking horse, subterfuge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 偷偷 近 (stalked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | anbringe kant mod kant til prøveudtagning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | samenvoegen (combine), belaging (to stalk), belagen (beset, set a trap, set a trap for, threaten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sisäänajo (drive-in, redistribution), ajokerran laskuvaihe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mise bout bout pour sondage, harceler (to stalk), harcèlement (to stalk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schrittprüfung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρενόχληση (annoyance, badgering, harassment, molestation), παρενοχλώ (annoy, badger, disturb, harass, harry, heckle, irritate, molest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ת' בות (stealth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vad becserkészése, osonás, lopódzás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "て馬 (spoiler, stalking horse, stallion brought close to a mare to test her readiness to mate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あてうま (spoiler, stalking horse, stallion brought close to a mare to test her readiness to mate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 활보 (Striding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stolkey (dress, stalk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alkingstay vestuário (apparel, attire, attirement, clothes, clothing, come-off, costume, ensemble, fig, garment, get-up, investiture, put-off, raiment, stalking-horse, tog, toggery, vestment, vesture), maneira de vestir (guise, stalking-horse), forma (build, cutout, energy, fashion, fig, form, former, guest-card, guise, hardiness, highness, intensity, kilter, main, make, manner, means, mode, mold, mould, posse, scheme, shape, species, stalking-horse, stretcher, way), aspecto (air, aspect, blush, cast, complexion, feature, fettle, garb, guise, light, look, make, mien, outlook, presence, riskiness, sight, stalking-horse, view, visage), aparência (air, appearance, aspect, complexion, expression, exterior, external, garb, likeness, look, make, perspective, semblance, shell, shew, show, sight, stalking-horse, surface, veneer, view). (various references) шагать;выслеживать облава. (various references) konj (equine, hippo, horse, knight, pacer, stalking horse, steed, troop-horse, vaulting horse). (various references) oleoducto (pipeline). (various references) stegvis provning, provning bit för bit. (various references) paravan (folding screen, paravane, screen, stalking horse), geyik avcılığı (deer stalking, deerstalking), göstermelik aday (stalking horse), bahane (allegation, blind, cavil, cloak, cop out, cover, evasion, excuse, guise, peg, plea, pretence, pretext, putoff, rise, salvo, shift, stalking horse, subterfuge, veil), avcının arkasına saklandığı at (stalking horse). (various references) ширма (screen, stalking horse), личина (antic, cloak, disguise, guise, stalking horse), полювання на оленів (deer stalking), переносний маскувальний щит (stalking horse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Stalking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Salkind, stikling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stalking" (pronounced stô"king) |
| 5 | -t ô" k i ng | talking. |
| 4 | -ô" k i ng | balking, caulking, chalking, gawking, Hawking, squawking, walking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squeaking, stacking, staking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: talkings. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-k-l-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: lakings, lasting, salting, skating, slaking, slating, staking, staling, takings, talking, tasking. | |
-2 letters: algins, aligns, asking, gainst, gaskin, gaslit, giants, glints, instal, kiangs, laking, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, sating, signal, taking, takins, tilaks, tsking. | |
-3 letters: agist, algin, align, alist, angst, anils, antis, gains, gaits, giant, gilts, ginks, glans, glias, glint, gnats, ikats, kails, kains. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-k-l-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: tacklings. | |
+3 letters: backlisting, steelmaking, toolmakings. | |
+4 letters: blacklisting, multitasking, nightwalkers, outsparkling, platemakings, steelmakings, tracklayings, walkingstick. | |
+5 letters: blacksmithing, laughingstock, metalworkings, multitaskings, painstakingly, stickhandling, streetwalking, walkingsticks. | |
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