"open one's legs" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-open one's legs.ogg [Australia] Forms: opens one's legs [present, singular, third-person], opening one's legs [participle, present], opened one's legs [participle, past], opened one's legs [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=open one's legs}} open one's legs (third-person singular simple present opens one's legs, present participle opening one's legs, simple past and past participle opened one's legs)
  1. (idiomatic, of a woman) To open oneself up to sexual intercourse. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Sex Synonyms: put out Translations (Translations): levittää jalkansa (Finnish), écarter les cuisses (French), rozkładać nogi [imperfective] (Polish), rozłożyć nogi [perfective] (Polish), раздви́нуть но́ги (razdvínutʹ nógi) [perfective] (Russian), abrirse de piernas (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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