sharking
n.— «Soldiers let each of the drivers go but snapped their pictures and collected information which will be used later to determine if any of the Afghan were involved in what soldiers call “sharking.” “The insurgents have been known to test out what our drills are to see how close that they can come (to convoys).”» —“Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan” by Graham Thomson in Kandahar City, Afghanistan The Province (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) Aug. 9, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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