get off with
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Verb
[edit]get off with (third-person singular simple present gets off with, present participle getting off with, simple past and past participle got off with)
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) To kiss passionately, fondle, or have sex with.
- He got off with my sister at the party.
- 1934, Rose Macaulay, Going Abroad, London: Collins, page 222:
- "Hero, obviously, has been getting off with a number of young Basques. I hope her parents won't let it go too far."
- 2007, Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, "Thou Shalt Always Kill" on Angles
- Thou shalt not express your shock at the fact that Sharon got off with Brad at the club last night by saying "is it?"
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get off, with.
- 1983, James L. Limbacher, Sexuality in World Cinema: L-Z, page 1448:
- [She] masturbates herself for almost two hours and ends up getting off with a bicycle wheel.
- 2018, Quinn Anderson, Cam Boy, page 157:
- Josh […] learned that clients wanted one thing: to watch him get off. Sometimes they got off with him, ordering him to watch them masturbate, or they wanted him to use toys on himself.
Usage notes
[edit]- The degree of intimacy varies with culture and context, but usually involves a minimum of kissing. In some cases, it is specifically limited to kissing and heavy petting, and excludes sexual intercourse.
- The verb is more likely to be used to describe a casual encounter with a stranger or acquaintance than sexual activity in a long-term relationship. Several dictionaries (Cambridge, Collins, Merriam-Webster) define the word euphemistically as "to begin a sexual relationship with someone", but (similar to hook up) the term is often used of situations where no relationship is intended.
- In the US, to get off with someone (in an amorous context) is to masturbate or reach orgasm with them.
- (In all varieties of English, the words can have various literal meanings, as in she got on the bus with two bottles and got off with only one.)
Synonyms
[edit]- make out with (slang: kiss)
- hook up with (slang: have sex with)
- go with (slang)
- get with
- score with
References
[edit]- “get off with”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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