bed-breaking

adjective

Sexually wild, uninhibited, and energetic.

Meanings

adjectivebed-breaking (comparative more bed-breaking, superlative most bed-breaking)

comparative more bed-breaking · superlative most bed-breaking · alternative bedbreaking · alternative bed breaking

  1. Sexually wild, uninhibited, and energetic.

    Their passionate gazes would be locked in silent promise of more bed-breaking sex romps in the coming hours.

    2011, Cate Lord, Lucky Girl
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    The upside of the stormy affair is the nightly session of wall-shaking, ground-quaking, bed-breaking, neighbor-waking make-up sex.

    2000, John Paschal, Mark Louis, The Single Man, page 156

    Edward is the epitome of thoughtfulnes who devotes himself to his wife's well-being, even if that means controlling his vampire urges to taste her sweet-smelling blood, and his teenage hormones that want more bed-breaking sex.

    2012, Kelly Oliver, Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down, page 205

    Because I thought you were just bragging before, when we first came into the bungalow and you told me that as newlyweds, we were supposed to be 'having wild, bed-breaking sex.'”

    2020, Cynthia Eden, Crossing The Line
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bed, breaking.

Origin

Compound of bed + breaking, from the image of sex that is so wild that the bed on which it occurs falls apart from the strain.

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