goating

plural goatings

1. countableuncountableA scapegoating.
2. countableuncountableAn event at a fraternal organization, involving scapegoating.

   Balls', teas, goatings and baseball games follow one another in rapid succession.

   1912, Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, page 420

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   The field has been worked over very thoroughly and the spring " goatings " will not be very numerous.

   1898, The Sigma Chi Quarterly: The Official Organ of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, page 135

   With soirees, parties, germans and goatings, our time has passed away only too quickly

   p. 1905, Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal, page 345

   Phi Delta Phi, staged annual "goatings," in which students caricatured professors mercilessly.

   1999, Susan Tyler Hitchcock, The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History, page 108

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of goat