Like BrE's apparently idiosyncratic "drink-driving", does English have any other hyphenated constructions of the form "noun-verb"? [closed]

As in title. I can think of many hyphenated constructions of other forms, such as

  • noun-adjective (e.g. nut-safe, child-friendly, community-driven)
  • adjective-verb (e.g. low-flying),
  • adverb-verb (e.g. well-made), and
  • adjective-verb (e.g. ready-made),

but cannot think of any others of the form noun-verb. A discussion arose in this Reddit thread, which prompted this question.


There are. For example, punch-pulling, life-threatening or pocket-picking. In these examples, the noun is the direct object of the verb. The particularity of drink-driving is that drink is describing the action of the verb drive, it is not its direct object. So it may be unique in this sense.

Here is a link where you can find plenty of more examples: wordnik.

PS: Thanks to a comment I must make clear that: the noun cannot be the object in the compound, but by meaning, in a sentence it can be. It is the punch that is pulled, the life that is threatened etc., but the drink cannot be driven.