sweethearting

English

Etymology

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.