culling

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʌlɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌlɪŋ

Verb

culling

  1. present participle and gerund of cull

Noun

culling (countable and uncountable, plural cullings)

  1. The act by which things are culled; the process of selecting for acceptance or removal.
    • 2021 September 22, Guillem Balagué, “Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      It is he who has done everything the club have asked of him since his arrival, including overseeing the brutal culling of many of the club's legends - Luis Suarez was thrown away in a phone call which, by all accounts, lasted less than 90 seconds.
  2. Anything separated or selected from a mass.
  3. (UK, thieves' cant, obsolete) The theft of personal possessions from a carriage during a horse race.
    • 1875, Snowden's Police Officers and Constables' Guide, page 113:
      Culling is performed during races by stepping up on a carriage during the time the horses are coming in, and snatching reticules, silk bags, &c., from the seats of the carriage, the attention of the ladies being drawn to the winning horse.

Derived terms

References

  • (form of theft): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary
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