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feel up

feel up verb: to grope someone, especially someone's breasts, in a sexual manner.

Verb

feel up (third-person singular simple present feels up, present participle feeling up, simple past and past participle felt up)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To grope someone, especially someone's breasts, in a sexual manner.
    • “Feel me up and rub your pussy against mine, that'll make the pain in my bummy go away, it will,” she told me. I felt sorry for her. And I guess that's why I let her show me how girls made out without boys.2009, Arlene Gorey, My Spanking Diary, page 28
    • Mostly we heard her laughing and the squeaking of the porch swing while the boyfriend felt her up. All the boys went to second base with Diana Estabrook.2013, Dan Pope, In the Cherry Tree, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    pet, tit up, touch up

Synonyms of feel up

Forms of feel up

third-person singular presentfeels up
present participlefeeling up
past participlefelt up
pastfelt up

Questions about feel up

What does feel up mean?
Feel up means to grope someone, especially someone's breasts, in a sexual manner.
What part of speech is feel up?
Feel up is a verb.
What is the past tense of feel up?
The past tense of feel up is felt up.

Words near feel up in the dictionary

  1. feel the Bern
  2. feel the burn
  3. feel the heat
  4. feel the pinch
  5. feel twelve feet tall
  6. feel up
  7. feel-bad
  8. feel-good
  9. feel-good factor
  10. feel-good factors
  11. feel-gooderies

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