"clap cheeks" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: claps cheeks [present, singular, third-person], clapping cheeks [participle, present], clapped cheeks [participle, past], clapped cheeks [past], clap someone's cheeks [alternative], get one's cheeks clapped [alternative]
Etymology: From the sound made by one's buttocks as they are having sex. Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=clap cheeks}} clap cheeks (third-person singular simple present claps cheeks, present participle clapping cheeks, simple past and past participle clapped cheeks)
  1. (slang, euphemistic, possibly vulgar) To have sex or have sex with. Tags: euphemistic, possibly, slang, vulgar Synonyms: fuck
    Sense id: en-clap_cheeks-en-verb-jpssPIFr Categories (other): English euphemisms, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48
  2. (slang, euphemistic, possibly vulgar) To twerk. Tags: euphemistic, possibly, slang, vulgar
    Sense id: en-clap_cheeks-en-verb-L1RBjXyp Categories (other): English euphemisms, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 44 56 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 69

Inflected forms

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      "form": "clap someone's cheeks",
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          "ref": "c.''' 1782, “The Spendthrift clap't into Limbo”, in Five Exccllent New Songs, [Edinburgh?]: Entered According to Order, page 5:",
          "text": "I pull’d out my purſe of five hundred pounds, / I pour’d them out on the table; / This glitt’ring ſight they no ſooner beheld, / Than they began to ſnigle and gigle; / And turning me round, would ſit in my lap, / And ſmerking and laughing, my cheeks they would clap; / I told them that I would have no more of that, / It was it that brought me to limbo.",
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        "(slang, euphemistic, possibly vulgar) To have sex or have sex with."
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        "(slang, euphemistic, possibly vulgar) To have sex or have sex with."
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