"knock boots" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-knock boots.ogg Forms: knocks boots [present, singular, third-person], knocking boots [participle, present], knocked boots [participle, past], knocked boots [past]
Etymology: Perhaps from the notion that boots placed beneath one's bed knock one another due to the shaking of the bed during sex. Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} knock boots (third-person singular simple present knocks boots, present participle knocking boots, simple past and past participle knocked boots)
  1. (slang, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse, especially recreationally if not casually. Tags: euphemistic, slang Categories (topical): Sex Synonyms: do it, get some, hook up, Netflix and chill, bump nasties, slap bellies, copulate
    Sense id: en-knock_boots-en-verb-YGP7Tief Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English euphemisms, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1986, “Tramp”, in Hot, Cool & Vicious, performed by Salt-n-Pepa:",
          "text": "You ain't knocking boots/ You ain't treating me like no prostitute",
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        {
          "ref": "1994, Marshall Crenshaw, Hollywood Rock, HarperPerennial, published 1994, →ISBN, page 250:",
          "text": "Of course they fall madly and deeply in love, as Biker Dude learns to respect a girl who won't knock boots on the first date.",
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          "ref": "2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega (lyrics and music), “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know:",
          "text": "After we done, bill a spliff and cotch / Pour me a glass of the Henny on the rocks / And get ready for round two / Cause any time we knock boots you know we knock twice",
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        "To have sexual intercourse, especially recreationally if not casually."
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        "(slang, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse, especially recreationally if not casually."
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        },
        {
          "word": "get some"
        },
        {
          "word": "hook up"
        },
        {
          "word": "Netflix and chill"
        },
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "word": "copulate"
        }
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        },
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          "text": "Of course they fall madly and deeply in love, as Biker Dude learns to respect a girl who won't knock boots on the first date.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega (lyrics and music), “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know:",
          "text": "After we done, bill a spliff and cotch / Pour me a glass of the Henny on the rocks / And get ready for round two / Cause any time we knock boots you know we knock twice",
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    {
      "word": "do it"
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    {
      "word": "get some"
    },
    {
      "word": "hook up"
    },
    {
      "word": "Netflix and chill"
    },
    {
      "word": "bump nasties"
    },
    {
      "word": "slap bellies"
    },
    {
      "word": "copulate"
    }
  ],
  "word": "knock boots"
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