Meanings
- humorousslanguncommonIn love, or feeling affection or lust, especially if sapphic.
Katie (Glass) 10/10/15 #5 Late Afternoon Let me be in lesbians with you, Why do you have to be such? Let me get sexy with you, Can we at least touch?
2017, Alexander R. Korponay, PoemS 63 - [Heart]Ache, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 72 more examples
Wallace Wells: If you want something bad, you have to fight for it. Step up your game, Scott. Break out the l-word. Scott Pilgrim: Lesbian? Wallace Wells: The other l-word. Scott Pilgrim: ...Lesbians? Wallace Wells: It's love, Scott. [later, to Ramona] Scott Pilgrim: I'm in lesbians with you.
2010, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World"I'm in lesbians with you." She says. Yeah I guess using the term "Love" would be a bit too early still so I'll have to accept "lesbians" for now. "Well I'm totally in gayness with you? Does that work? Uh probably not, that's too weird."
2014, Cameron Sadler, Talk to You Tomorrow, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN
Origin
A jocular replacement for love, from both lesbian(s) and love being l-words. Popularized if not coined by Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010).
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