intercourser

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noun

Someone or something that engages in social or business intercourse.

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nounintercourser (plural intercoursers)

plural intercoursers

  1. rareSomeone or something that engages in social or business intercourse.

    He was to be the elite social intercourser for all the others who could only lead drab dull lives, slightly comfortable at most, full only at moments.

    1992, Michael R. Als, No Half a Loaf: Novel, page 142
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    When Congress in March 1809 abandoned the complete embargo and partial non-importation, and sub- stituted a complete ban on commercial intercourse with the French and British Empires, Schenck seized twenty intercoursers in 1809, and twenty-three in 1810.

    1941 November, Herbert Heaton, “Non-Importation, 1806–1812”, in The Journal of Economic History, volume 1, number 2

    By this my Lady may judge what reasons I had to write what I did of the practising of the padri, amongst whom Mr. Jo. Ger[?ard] was by the gentleman precisely named to be one of the parties that was a chief intercourser.

    1980, Robert Cecil marquess of Salisbury, Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Hon. the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., &c. &c. &c
  2. derogatoryraresometimesSomeone who has sexual intercourse.

    As Sartre himself put it, "I was more a masturbator than an 'intercourser' of women" (CA, p. 385).

    1986, Susan Rubin Suleiman, The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives, →ISBN
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    Thus, though he went with a procession of women, his behavior with them led him to see that "I am not an intercourser," a phrase which he then wore out until it lost its meaning

    1954, The Yearbook of Psychoanalysis, page 192

    He claimed innocence; he had done nothing wrong, and had done nothing to provoke anyone else. Pointing an accusatory finger toward the other man, he said that he and the woman were in an apartment, “just starting intercoursing, when that guy busted through the door.” As the reader may have surmised, the guy busting down the door was the husband of the female intercourser.

    2016, David W. Donovan, Variety, the Spice of the Job, →ISBN

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