Definition of "comping" [comping]

• Present participle of comp. (verb)
• The practice of entering many competitions in order to win as many prizes as possible. (noun)

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• "Powell was seven years younger than Monk but he was the first to become successful with a style that swept out the left-hand striding of the swing era in favor of "comping," clusters of chords around which extended melodies by the right hand were twined, like flowers around a bass trellis."
• "Kenny claims he met Travolta at his restaurant in February, and, after "comping" the movie star and his daughter a meal per restaurant policy for celebrities, he asked him, "as one autistic child's father to another," if he "was doing anything special in terms of therapy" for Jett."
• "We were juniors and she was trying out, or "comping," for the student newspaper, the Crimson."