See booty call on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2013, Jonathan Bree, “Booty Call”, in The Primrose Path:",
"text": "And it wouldn’t be the same / If you hit send again / If you booty call again tonight",
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"To make a booty call."
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"(transitive) To make a booty call."
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "yuē pào",
"sense": "to make a booty call",
"word": "約炮 /约炮"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "to make a booty call",
"word": "bootycallen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to make a booty call",
"word": "soittaa vonkauspuhelu"
}
],
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"Bill Bellamy",
"Def Comedy Jam"
],
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