- sleep around
- intransitive verb Date: 1928 to engage in sex promiscuously
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
sleep around
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sleep around — verb be sexually active with more than one partner His wife bed hops • Syn: ↑bed hop, ↑bedhop • Hypernyms: ↑fornicate • Verb Frames: Somebody s * * * … Useful english dictionary
sleep around — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms sleep around : present tense I/you/we/they sleep around he/she/it sleeps around present participle sleeping around past tense slept around past participle slept around informal to have sexual relations with… … English dictionary
sleep around — PHRASAL VERB (disapproval) If you say that someone sleeps around, you disapprove of them because they have sex with a lot of different people. [INFORMAL] [V P] I don t sleep around. [V P with n] ...a drunken husband who slept around with other… … English dictionary
sleep around — to have sex with a lot of different people. Just because I m an actor doesn t mean I sleep around … New idioms dictionary
sleep around — [B] sleep with and make love to many partners Harry was sleeping around before his wife divorced him … English idioms
sleep around — have many casual sexual partners. → sleep … English new terms dictionary
sleep around — {v. phr.}, {slang}, {vulgar}, {avoidable} To be free with one s sexual favors; to behave promiscuously. * /Sue Catwallender is a nice girl but she sleeps around an awful lot with all sorts of guys./ … Dictionary of American idioms
sleep around — {v. phr.}, {slang}, {vulgar}, {avoidable} To be free with one s sexual favors; to behave promiscuously. * /Sue Catwallender is a nice girl but she sleeps around an awful lot with all sorts of guys./ … Dictionary of American idioms
sleep\ around — v. phr. slang vulgar avoidable To be free with one s sexual favors; to behave promiscuously. Sue Catwallender is a nice girl but she sleeps around an awful lot with all sorts of guys … Словарь американских идиом
sleep around — to copulate promiscuously Of either sex, supposedly in various beds: ... sleeping around with a lot of West Indians. I never approved of Christine s lust for black men. (S. Green, 1979) … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
