booty call
Americannoun
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a phone call, text message, email, etc., whose purpose is to arrange a meeting to have casual sex.
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a meeting to have casual sex, initiated by a phone call, text message, etc.
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a person who is invited to have casual sex by a phone call, text message, etc.
noun
Etymology
Origin of booty call
Example Sentences
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From Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’s booty call Person to Person to Carly Rae Jepson’s uber-hit Call Me Maybe and beyond, whispering sweet nothings into the mouthpiece an essential element of pop’s romantic currency.
From The Guardian • Nov. 2, 2015
On Cry a While, Dylan actually uses the phrase "booty call"; on Po' Boy, he tells a knock-knock joke.
From Time Magazine Archive
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