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bodice ripping

bodice ripping is the alternative form of bodice-ripping.

Meaning of bodice-ripping

Noun

bodice-ripping (usually uncountable, plural bodice-rippings)

  1. (usually) A lustful scene of seduction and violent or forcefully initiated sex.
    • We had a long debate about the ethics of bodice-ripping—who was allowed to rip and who got ripped.1989, Alice Thomas Ellis, Home Life Four - Volume 4, page 72
    Synonyms:
    bodice-rippery

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Forms of bodice ripping

pluralbodice rippings

Questions about bodice ripping

What is bodice ripping the alternative form of?
Bodice ripping is the alternative form of bodice-ripping.

Words near bodice ripping in the dictionary

  1. Bodiam
  2. Bodic
  3. bodice
  4. bodice ripper
  5. bodice rippers
  6. bodice ripping
  7. bodice rippings
  8. bodice-ripper
  9. bodice-rippers
  10. bodice-rippery
  11. bodice-ripping

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