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gets one's leg over

gets one's leg over is the third-person singular simple present indicative of get one's leg over.

Meaning of get one's leg over

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

Questions about gets one's leg over

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Gets one's leg over is the third-person singular simple present indicative of get one's leg over.

Words near gets one's leg over in the dictionary

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

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