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Noun
pig-sticking (countable and uncountable, plural pig-stickings)
- (colloquial, dated, India, Anglo-Indian) The hunting of boars.
1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair:Swankey of the Body Guard himself, that dangerous youth, and the greatest buck of all the Indian army now on leave, was one day discovered by Major Dobbin tête-à-tête with Amelia, and describing the sport of pig-sticking to her with great humour and eloquence […]
1945, Noël Coward, I Wonder What Happened to Him?:Have you heard any word
Of that bloke in the "Third" -
Was it Sotherby, Sedgewick or Sim?
They had him chucked out of a club in Bombay.
But apart from his mess bills exceeding his pay,
He took to pig-sticking in quite the wrong way.
I wonder what happened to him?