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get one's oats

get one's oats verb: to have sexual intercourse.

Verb

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

  1. (informal) To have sexual intercourse.
    • Probably he's in a bad mood because he didn't get his oats last night.
    • “I Dig a Pygmy” by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids. Phase one, in which Doris gets her oats.1970, Paul McCartney, “Two of Us”, in Let it Be, performed by The Beatles

Synonyms of get one's oats

Forms of get one's oats

third-person singular presentgets one's oats
present participlegetting one's oats
pastgot one's oats
past participle UKgot one's oats
past participle USgotten one's oats

Questions about get one's oats

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

Words near get one's oats in the dictionary

  1. get one's leg over
  2. get one's load on
  3. get one's marching orders
  4. get one's mind out of the gutter
  5. get one's monkey up
  6. get one's oats
  7. get one's own back
  8. get one's own way
  9. get one's panties in a bunch
  10. get one's panties in a pretzel
  11. get one's panties in a wad

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