bodice ripping

A form of bodice-ripping — A lustful scene of seduction and violent or forcefully initiated sex.

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Meanings

nounbodice ripping (usually uncountable, plural bodice rippings)

plural bodice rippings

  1. alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative form of bodice-ripping.

    Even a vampire enjoys a little bodice ripping now and again.

    2011, Chloe Neill, Hard Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel
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    Tracks of the Armies portrayed more than suggestive bodice ripping: Volck's subject here was the aftermath of a rape (fig. 8).

    1993, Judy L. Larson, Cynthia Payne, Graphic arts & the South, page 168

    After much bosom heaving and bodice ripping, Diana becomes conscious of her love for the “lawless savage,” and she decides to stay with him in their love oasis.

    2013, Laura Frost, The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents, page 93
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Chicago

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