car‧pet‧ing /ˈkɑːpətɪŋ, ˈkɑːpɪtɪŋ $ ˈkɑːr-/ noun

1. [uncountable] carpets in general, or the material used for making them:
a spacious room with wall-to-wall carpeting (=covering the whole floor)

2. [countable] British English informal an occasion when you talk to someone in an angry way because they have done something wrong:
He was called to the manager’s office for a carpeting.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲