knock boots

verb

To have sexual intercourse, especially recreationally if not casually.

Meanings

verbknock boots (third-person singular simple present knocks boots, present participle knocking boots, simple past and past participle knocked boots)

present singular third person knocks boots · participle present knocking boots · participle past knocked boots · past knocked boots

  1. euphemisticslangTo have sexual intercourse, especially recreationally if not casually.

    You ain't knocking boots/ You ain't treating me like no prostitute

    1986, “Tramp”, in Hot, Cool & Vicious, performed by Salt-n-Pepa
    2 more examples

    Of course they fall madly and deeply in love, as Biker Dude learns to respect a girl who won't knock boots on the first date.

    1994, Marshall Crenshaw, Hollywood Rock, HarperPerennial, published 1994, →ISBN, page 250

    After we done, bill a spliff and cotch / Pour me a glass of the Henny on the rocks / And get ready for round two / Cause any time we knock boots you know we knock twice

    2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega, “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know

    Synonyms: do it, get some, hook up, Netflix and chill, bump nasties, slap bellies

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo have sexual intercourse, especially recreationally if not casually.

Also see

Origin

Perhaps from the notion that boots placed beneath one's bed knock one another due to the shaking of the bed during sex.

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APA

knock boots. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knock%20boots

MLA

“knock boots.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knock%20boots. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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