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knock boots

knock boots verb: to have sexual intercourse, especially recreationally if not casually.

Verb

knock boots (third-person singular simple present knocks boots, present participle knocking boots, simple past and past participle knocked boots)

  1. (euphemistic, slang) To have sexual intercourse, especially recreationally if not casually.
    • You ain't knocking boots/ You ain't treating me like no prostitute1986, “Tramp”, in Hot, Cool & Vicious, performed by Salt-n-Pepa
    • Of course they fall madly and deeply in love, as Biker Dude learns to respect a girl who won't knock boots on the first date.1994, Marshall Crenshaw, Hollywood Rock, HarperPerennial, published 1994, →ISBN, page 250

Synonyms of knock boots

All synonyms of knock boots

Forms of knock boots

third-person singular presentknocks boots
present participleknocking boots
past participleknocked boots
pastknocked boots

Origin of knock boots

Perhaps from the notion that boots placed beneath one's bed knock one another due to the shaking of the bed during sex.

Questions about knock boots

What does knock boots mean?
Knock boots means to have sexual intercourse, especially recreationally if not casually.
What part of speech is knock boots?
Knock boots is a verb.
What is the past tense of knock boots?
The past tense of knock boots is knocked boots.

Words near knock boots in the dictionary

  1. knock and run
  2. knock around
  3. knock at the door
  4. knock at the door of
  5. knock back
  6. knock boots
  7. knock box
  8. knock boxes
  9. knock dead
  10. knock door run
  11. knock down

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