Meanings
- USuncountableShopping at a Kroger store.
If yours is a “happy family”—in the midwest—you go Krogering.
1960, Jack Mendelsohn, Why I Am a Unitarian, Thomas Nelson, page 2073 more examples
Needless to say, our bunch won’t be going Krogering again, like they say down that way.
2002 February 22, Orris Tottle, “And the senior shall wind down at the Lion”, in Walker County Messenger, LaFayette, Georgia, page 4He tells Hodges his folks are off Krogering, and he’s got babysitting duty until they get back.
2014, Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes, New York City: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 214While I’ll continue Krogering until Aug. 14, when the Durham stores close, Kroger may have lost me as a customer when traveling and shopping outside of the Triangle and state.
2018 July 26, Howard Craft, “Last days of Krogering get personal for this Durham shopper”, in The Herald-Sun, Durham, North Carolina, retrieved 01 Sep 2018
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of Kroger
Origin
From Kroger + -ing. From a marketing campaign by The Kroger Company that featured the jingle "Let's Go Krogering!" https://books.google.com/books?id=2DaFZGPDdfwC&pg=PA28
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