Meanings
plural booty calls · alternative bootie call · alternative booty-call
- slangA telephone call made to request a sexual encounter.
This is a booty call / My boot, my boot, your arsehole / This is a Freudian slip
2009, “The Fun Powder Plot”, in Two Dancers, performed by Wild Beasts - slangA sexual encounter arranged by telephone.
- slangThe recipient of a telephone call requesting a sexual encounter.
- slangAn encounter for the purposes of casual sex.
"My mom gets 2am booty calls. My mom is cooler than me."
2018, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 3717: Clinton's Mom Knows How To Party2 more examples
You left me for another woman and now you're here on a booty call, that's what the matter is.
2016, Helen Callaghan, Dear Amy, →ISBN, page 25You up? In most circles, that text would read like a very ineloquently crafted booty call, one that absolutely should not warrant a response.
2022, Kosoko Jackson, chapter 1, in A Dash of Salt and Pepper, Berkley, →ISBN, page 1
present singular third person booty calls · participle present booty calling · participle past booty called · past booty called · alternative bootie call · alternative booty-call
- transitiveTo make a booty call.
And it wouldn’t be the same / If you hit send again / If you booty call again tonight
2013, Jonathan Bree, “Booty Call”, in The Primrose Path
Origin
Coined early 1990s, attributed to Bill Bellamy on Def Comedy Jam.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 約炮 /约炮, 約炮 /约炮
- 約炮 /约炮 (yuē pào)sexual encounter arranged by telephone
- 約炮 /约炮 (yuē pào)encounter for the purposes of casual sex
- 約炮 /约炮 (yuē pào)telephone call
- 約炮 /约炮 (yuē pào)recipient of a telephone call
- 約炮 /约炮 (yuē pào)to make a booty call
Dutch seksafspraakje, seksdate
- seksafspraakjesexual encounter arranged by telephone
- seksdatesexual encounter arranged by telephone
- seksafspraakjeencounter for the purposes of casual sex
- seksdateencounter for the purposes of casual sex
- vluggertjeencounter for the purposes of casual sex
- bootycalltelephone call
- bootycallrecipient of a telephone call
- scharrelrecipient of a telephone call
- bootycallento make a booty call
Finnish pano, seksitreffit
- panosexual encounter arranged by telephone
- seksitreffitsexual encounter arranged by telephone
- panoencounter for the purposes of casual sex
- seksitreffitencounter for the purposes of casual sex
- vonkauspuhelutelephone call
- panokaverirecipient of a telephone call
- soittaa vonkauspuheluto make a booty call
German Sextreffen
- Sextreffenencounter for the purposes of casual sex
Cite this entry
booty call. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/booty%20call
“booty call.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/booty%20call. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “booty call,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/booty%20call.
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