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get one's leg over

get one's leg over verb: to have sex.

Verb

get one's leg over (third-person singular simple present gets one's leg over, present participle getting one's leg over, simple past got one's leg over, past participle (UK) got one's leg over or (US) gotten one's leg over)

  1. (UK, intransitive, slang) To have sex
    • It's all well and good having a relationship, but at the end of the day all I want to do is get my leg over.
    Synonyms:
    do it
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, one's, leg, over.
    • He just didn't quite get his leg over.1991, Jonathan Agnew, BBC Test Match Special, describing Ian Botham treading on his stumps; quoted in Cris Freddi, The Guinness Book of Cricket Blunders, Guinness Publishing, 1996, →ISBN, page 138

Synonyms of get one's leg over

Forms of get one's leg over

third-person singular presentgets one's leg over
present participlegetting one's leg over
pastgot one's leg over
past participle UKgot one's leg over
past participle USgotten one's leg over
alternative formget a leg over

Words formed from get one's leg over

Questions about get one's leg over

What does get one's leg over mean?
Get one's leg over means to have sex.
What part of speech is get one's leg over?
Get one's leg over is a verb.
What is the past tense of get one's leg over?
The past tense of get one's leg over is got one's leg over.

Words near get one's leg over in the dictionary

  1. get one's juices flowing
  2. get one's kicks
  3. get one's kit off
  4. get one's knickers in a knot
  5. get one's knickers in a twist
  6. get one's leg over
  7. get one's load on
  8. get one's marching orders
  9. get one's mind out of the gutter
  10. get one's monkey up
  11. get one's oats

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