sexual partner

noun

A person with whom someone has sex.

Meanings

nounsexual partner (plural sexual partners)

plural sexual partners

  1. A person with whom someone has sex.

    They had dozens of sexual partners before they married each other. Dance-floor romances, Ibiza flings. The Nineties, ecstatic decade!

    2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 23

    Synonyms: sex pal, sex partner, bedfellow, bedmate, fuck, hookup, lover, paramour

Synonyms & antonyms

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