hit the sheets

verb

To go to bed.

Meanings

verbhit the sheets (third-person singular simple present hits the sheets, present participle hitting the sheets, simple past and past participle hit the sheets)

present singular third person hits the sheets · participle present hitting the sheets

  1. idiomaticslangTo have sex.
    1 more example

    From the moment I landed, Étienne oozed a sexual dominance that had me quite literally oozing in turn during our first kiss in the airport as he held me against him, his hand strong and powerful on my lower back. For the next three days, I found myself beautifully and irresistibly dominated by him every time we hit the sheets, which was often.

    2024 October 2, Kit Jannar, “My Hetero Hunk of a French Lover Asked Me to F*ck Him Like a Woman”, in Cosmopolitan

    Synonyms: approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh

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