grooming
IPA: grˈumɪŋ
noun
- Care for one's personal appearance, hygiene, and clothing.
- (biology) The practice of primates picking through the hair of others, looking for insects etc.
- The act of teaching someone, often for advancement at work.
- Caring for horses or other animals by brushing and cleaning them.
- The act of gaining the trust of a child or vulnerable person with the intention of luring them into a sexual relationship.
- (software engineering) In agile software development, the reviewing and prioritization of items in the development backlog. (Now increasingly termed refinement instead.)
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Examples of "grooming" in Sentences
- Chipmunks are fastidious in self grooming.
- Body grooming is the act of shaving, styling or trimming hair of the male body.
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