sweethearting

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English

Etymology

From sweetheart +‎ -ing.

Noun

sweethearting (usually uncountable, plural sweetheartings)

  1. (dated) Courting; lovemaking.
    • 2022, Irvin S. Cobb, Sundry Accounts:
      She met her sweethearts on the street, at the soda fountain, in that trysting place for juvenile sweetheartings, the far corner of the post-office corridor.
  2. (business, retail) Theft by employees at the cash register, for example by giving away merchandise to friends and family.