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Cuckooing meaning
The call of a cuckoo. | A form of crime in which the home of a vulnerable person is taken over by a criminal gang and used as a base for their activities.
Example sentences (5)
Clitheroe’s colleague, DI Kathryn Riley, gave a recent example of a vulnerable woman whose home was being used by dealers as a base – so called “cuckooing”.
His team arrests one man, while the remaining five or six occupants are treated as potential victims of "cuckooing".
They used the home of a woman in her 30s in Walton Street, Jericho, for their criminality for around a week, known as cuckooing.
Gangs often drive out local dealers, exploit children such as Boy X and frequently take over a local property belonging to an addict or vulnerable person to use as a base, a practice known as cuckooing.
This practice is known as cuckooing.