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"To have sex."
],
"links": [
[
"have sex",
"have sex"
]
],
"qualifier": "African-American Vernacular",
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated slang, euphemistic, 1920s, African-American Vernacular) To have sex."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bang"
},
{
"word": "do it"
},
{
"word": "copulate"
}
],
"tags": [
"dated",
"euphemistic",
"slang"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To play rock and roll music."
],
"links": [
[
"rock and roll",
"#Noun"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "rock"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Does everyone know what car they're going in? Then let's rock and roll!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Ben J. Heijdra, Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, page 484",
"text": "Now we are ready to rock and roll.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To start, commence, begin, get moving."
],
"links": [
[
"start",
"start"
],
[
"commence",
"commence"
],
[
"begin",
"begin"
],
[
"get moving",
"get moving"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "initiate"
},
{
"word": "open"
},
{
"word": "begin"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɹɒk ən(d) ˈɹəʊl/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɹɑk ən(d) ˈɹoʊl/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-au-rock and roll.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e6/En-au-rock_and_roll.ogg/En-au-rock_and_roll.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/En-au-rock_and_roll.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "rock-and-roll"
},
{
"word": "rock'n'roll"
},
{
"word": "rock 'n' roll"
},
{
"word": "rock n roll"
},
{
"word": "rock 'n roll"
},
{
"word": "rock-n-roll"
},
{
"word": "rock-'n'-roll"
},
{
"word": "rock & roll"
}
],
"word": "rock and roll"
}
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