I learned a new term today, "prairie dogging." Apparently it is when people lean over cubicles at work to talk with each other. Have you heard of it?

Just from the term, I can picture the event.

In Hugh Hefner's office, do employees work in pubicles?

Publicles are frozen ice cream treats

You two!

I see it's even in Dictionary.com

The zoo had a prairie dog exhibit with glass domes in the middle of the exhibit allowing visitors to get inside the den with the varmints, to get an idea what their life was like.

Now TV producers do it with rednecks.

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Originally posted by Proofreader:
The zoo had a prairie dog exhibit with glass domes in the middle of the exhibit allowing visitors to get inside the den with the varmints, to get an idea what their life was like.

This is a rather annoying video, but it defines "prairie dogging." The term makes sense.

It defines it but wouldn't it have been easier to demonstrate it by merely standing and looking over a partition?

Yes. Not a hard concept.

You might want to be cautious regarding how you use this term seeing as how it has at least one other (fairly disgusting) meaning. I don't think it is nearly as widespread as the cubicle image, though, since my sole reference is a scene in the movie "Rat Race" in which a teen, on the road with her family, expresses her extreme need for them to find a rest stop in a major hurry. "I'm prairie dogging," she advises.

Ah, the beauty of the English language!

Here is the scene to which CJS refers.

Ewww! I had not seen that movie before.

Great to see you CJS!