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prairie-dogging

noun

  1. informal.
    (in an open-plan office) the practice of looking over the top of one's partition in order to discover the source of or reason for a commotion
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of prairie-dogging1

C20: after the actions of a prairie dog , which stands on its hind legs to get a better view of something
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I am, as the kids say, “prairie-dogging it.”

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