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gotten one's leg over

gotten one's leg over is the past participle 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 gotten one's leg over

What is gotten one's leg over the past participle of?
Gotten one's leg over is the past participle of get one's leg over.

Words near gotten one's leg over in the dictionary

  1. gotten one's house in order
  2. gotten one's hump up
  3. gotten one's jollies
  4. gotten one's juices flowing
  5. gotten one's kicks
  6. gotten one's leg over
  7. gotten one's load on
  8. gotten one's marching orders
  9. gotten one's mind out of the gutter
  10. gotten one's monkey up
  11. gotten one's oats

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