mercy fuck

noun

An act of sexual intercourse performed out of pity for the other person's inadequate sex life.

Meanings

nounmercy fuck (plural mercy fucks)

plural mercy fucks · alternative mercyfuck

  1. idiomaticslangvulgarAn act of sexual intercourse performed out of pity for the other person's inadequate sex life.

    Slept. Once. Singular. It was a mercy fuck. I felt bad, he only had one ball.

    2001 August 5, Jenny Bicks, “Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda”, in Sex and the City, season 4, episode 11, spoken by Miranda
    1 more example

    It was unclean and he would have nothing to do with it. So she took what she could get, the mercy fucks that were tossed at her like meager bones and let it go at that. Lee could not understand why she just didn't pack her bags and leave.

    2004, J. L. Navarro, The Blood Cake Vendor and Other Stories

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Translations

Finnish säälipano, säälipillu
  • säälipanosex performed out of pity
  • säälipillusex performed out of pity
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