love bite

See also: lovebite and love-bite

English

Alternative forms

• lovebite, love-bite

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Noun

love bite (plural love bites)

1. A swelling on the skin caused by someone (or something) sucking the skin.

   Synonyms: (US) hickey, monkey bite

   • 1917 April, Jack London, Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:

     […] with first a scarlet slash of tongue to cheek, he seized her hand between his teeth and dented the soft skin with a love bite that did not hurt.

   • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 70:

     ‘Gee! You ever notice the bloody big love bites on some of those sheilas that work in the Store?’

   • 1983, “Bad Boys”, in Fantastic, performed by Wham!:

     Easy girls and late nights / Cigarettes and love bites / Why do you have to be so cruel?

Translations

hickey — see hickey

Anagrams

• belovite