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beasts with two backs

beasts with two backs is the plural of beast with two backs.

Meaning of beast with two backs

Noun

beast with two backs (plural beasts with two backs)

  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic) Two people united in sexual intercourse in the missionary position.
    • I am one ſir, that come to tell you, your daughter, and the Moore, are now making the Beaſt with two backs.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act...
    Synonyms:
    double-backed beast, two-backed beast

Questions about beasts with two backs

What is beasts with two backs the plural of?
Beasts with two backs is the plural of beast with two backs.

Words near beasts with two backs in the dictionary

  1. beasts of burden
  2. beasts of draught
  3. beasts of prey
  4. beasts of venery
  5. beasts on
  6. beasts with two backs
  7. beastship
  8. beasty
  9. beat
  10. beat 'em up
  11. beat 'em ups

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