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View synonyms for sleep around

sleep around

verb

  1. informal.
    intr, adverb to be sexually promiscuous
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Engage in sex promiscuously, as in Fortunately, no one mentioned that both of them had slept around in their younger days . [ Colloquial ; 1920s]
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Example Sentences

“Angels,” by contrast, is used ironically to refer to girls who sleep around a lot but no one knows about it.

Children dance, play and sleep around the mask from which the jet of water would issue.

"Yes; the boys sleep around it nights," she went on to confide.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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