Copulate

  • 111fuck — 1. tv. & in. to copulate [with] someone. (Taboo. Usually objectionable.) □ They want to fuck all night. □ She fucked him all night. 2. n. an act of copulation. (Taboo. Usually objectionable.) □ I need a fuck. 3 …

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  • 112hump — 1. tv. & in. to copulate [with] someone. (Refers to male arching his back in copulation, as in fornicate. Usually objectionable.) □ The sailor spent his entire leave drinking and humping. 2. n. an act of copulation. (Usually objectionable.) □ The …

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  • 113score — 1. in. to succeed. □ I knew if I kept trying I could score. □ It takes hard work and luck to score. 2. tv. & in. to obtain something; to obtain drugs or sex. (Very close to sense 1.) □ Albert spent an hour trying to score some pot …

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  • 114screw — 1. tv. & in. to copulate [with] someone. (Usually objectionable.) □ The sailor wanted to screw somebody bad. 2. tv. & in. to cheat or deceive someone. □ The sales clerk screwed me on this watch. □ You can count on somebody screwing you at a… …

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  • 115couple — [13] The notion underlying couple is of ‘joining’. The noun came into English via Old French from Latin cōpula ‘tie, connection’. This was a compound noun formed from the prefix com ‘together’ and the verb apere ‘fasten’ (source of English apt,… …

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  • 116footle — [19] Footling appears to have originated as a euphemistic equivalent to fucking. It probably comes from a dialectal footer ‘mess about, fuck around’, which may well have been acquired from French foutre ‘copulate with’, a descendant of Latin… …

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  • 117fuck — [16] The most celebrated of the so called ‘Anglo Saxon’ four letter words goes back in written form no further than the early 16th century – a far cry from the Old English period. A personal name John le Fucker, however, recorded from 1278, shows …

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  • 118ram — [OE] Ram is a general West Germanic word for ‘male sheep’, now shared only by Dutch (although German has the derivative ramme ‘rammer’). It may be related to Old Norse ramr ‘strong’, the allusion being to the ram’s strength in butting. This is… …

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  • 119service — service1 [sʉr′vis] n. [ME servise < OFr < L servitium, servitude < servus, slave: see SERF] 1. the occupation or condition of a servant 2. a) employment, esp. public employment [diplomatic service] b) a branch or department of this,… …

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  • 120tread — [tred] vt. TROD or (in tread water: see phr. below) treaded, trodden or trod or (in tread water) treaded, treading, trod [ME treden < OE tredan, akin to Ger treten < IE * dreu < base * drā, to run, step > TRAP1] 1. to walk on, in,… …

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