Usually means: Vocalization of dogs; loud, repetitive.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word barking:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. barking: Merriam-Webster
  2. barking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barking: Collins English Dictionary
  4. barking: Vocabulary.com
  5. Barking, barking: Wordnik
  6. barking, barking (mad): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Barking, barking: Wiktionary
  8. Barking: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Barking: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Barking, barking: Dictionary.com
  11. barking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Barking (TV series), Barking (UK Parliament constituency), Barking (album), Barking (song), Barking, Barking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Barking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. Barking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. barking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. barking: FreeDictionary.org
  17. barking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barking: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. barking: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. barking: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. barking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (barking)

▸ noun:  The action of the verb to bark.
▸ noun:  A town in the borough of Barking and Dagenham, in eastern Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4484).
▸ noun:  A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0753).
▸ adjective:  (British slang) Clipping of barking mad. [(British, New Zealand, informal) Completely insane.]

Similar:
skin, barque, baying, abay, woofing, Barkese, latration, shouting, yapping, ring-bark, more...

Opposite:
mewling, mewing, mewed

Phrases:
barking deer, barking mad, barking sands, barking squirrels, ring barking, more...

Adjectives:
loud, furious, distant, incessant, frantic, sharp, excited, fierce, occasional, wild, sudden

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Similar:
skin, barque, baying, abay, woofing, Barkese, latration, shouting, yapping, ring-bark, more...

Opposite:
mewling, mewing, mewed

Phrases:
barking deer, barking mad, barking sands, barking squirrels, ring barking, barking frog, barking drum, barking squirrel, Barking up the wrong tree, barking irons, Barking and Dagenham, barking bird, more...

Adjectives:
loud, furious, distant, incessant, frantic, sharp, excited, fierce, occasional, wild, sudden

Colors:
    brown,     gray,     black,     white,     tan, more...



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