Meanings
- euphemisticidiomaticpluralplural onlySexual intercourse.
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2015 February 9, Mollie Hemingway, “A Sex Week For The Rest Of Us”, in The Federalist, retrieved 01 Jun 20171 more example
The cold, during the winter night, is very severe, and the sentinels are frequently obliged to be relieved every half-hour, and the officers, so long as they possess the "prima flora juvenus," may enjoy horizontal refreshments in peace; but when they obtained those manly appendages, yclept whiskers, find that turing in bed becomes hopeless, and being "brought up with a round turn," discover that they have become frozen to the sheets.
1846 January 28, Richard George Augustus Levinge, “Echoes from the Backwoods”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 76, number 301, chapter 2, page 38Synonyms: copulation
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSexual intercourse.
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