"show someone one's etchings" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: shows someone one's etchings [present, singular, third-person], showing someone one's etchings [participle, present], showed someone one's etchings [past], shown someone one's etchings [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|show<,,,shown> someone one's etchings}} show someone one's etchings (third-person singular simple present shows someone one's etchings, present participle showing someone one's etchings, simple past showed someone one's etchings, past participle shown someone one's etchings)
  1. (idiomatic) A clichéd innuendo used to offer to bring someone to a private location in order to have sex, to show a place where people can engage in sexual intercourse (alternatively replacing "someone" with a phrase starting with to) Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: discuss Uganda, graft the forked tree, someone's etchings, copulate
    Sense id: en-show_someone_one's_etchings-en-verb-MeayOilV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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