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jump someone's bones

jump someone's bones verb: to have sex with someone; to initiate the physical move.

Verb

jump someone's bones (third-person singular simple present jumps someone's bones, present participle jumping someone's bones, simple past and past participle jumped someone's bones)

  1. (idiomatic, slang) To have sex with someone; to initiate the physical move.
    • “He’ll jump my bones in bed,” one fat woman explained to us about her current lover, “but he won’t take me out in public. At least the sex is great!”1989, Clifton D. Bryant, Deviant Behavior, →ISBN, page 337
    • His bruises from the fight did funny things to her womanly instincts. She couldn't decide whether to say “poor baby” or jump his bones.2004, Emma Holly, Strange Attractions, →ISBN, page 265
    Synonyms:
    Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have
  2. (slang, uncommon) To attack someone suddenly.

Synonyms of jump someone's bones

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Forms of jump someone's bones

third-person singular presentjumps someone's bones
present participlejumping someone's bones
past participlejumped someone's bones
pastjumped someone's bones
alternative formjump on someone's bones

Questions about jump someone's bones

What does jump someone's bones mean?
Jump someone's bones means to have sex with someone; to initiate the physical move.
What part of speech is jump someone's bones?
Jump someone's bones is a verb.
What is the past tense of jump someone's bones?
The past tense of jump someone's bones is jumped someone's bones.

Words near jump someone's bones in the dictionary

  1. jump servers
  2. jump ship
  3. jump shot
  4. jump shots
  5. jump sole
  6. jump someone's bones
  7. jump spark
  8. jump sparks
  9. jump squat
  10. jump start
  11. jump starter

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