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lovepats

lovepats is the plural of lovepat.

Meaning of lovepat

Noun (1)

lovepat (plural lovepats)

  1. (informal) Someone who travels to another country to be with a romantic partner, or to experience love.
    • These vitally important Expats are the ‘Lovepats’, who, coming in the bedroom window and sliding between the sheets, have down through the years, given their bodies, their genes, and their chromosomes to us grateful Rock Onions.1992, Larry Burchall, The other side: looking behind the shield, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 56–58

Noun (2)

lovepat (plural lovepats)

  1. A pat (gentle touch, e.g. on the head) meant as a display of love or affection; often euphemistically or sarcastically referring to a more violent hitting.
    • And Rinda was suddenly aware of a blue bruise just beneath his left eye. He saw her studying it. "A lovepat from my Uncle Rolfe," he said bitterly.1984, Valerie Sherwood, Born to love, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131

Questions about lovepats

What is lovepats the plural of?
Lovepats is the plural of lovepat.

Words near lovepats in the dictionary

  1. lovenests
  2. loveniid
  3. loveniids
  4. Lovens
  5. lovepat
  6. lovepats
  7. lover
  8. lover boy
  9. lover boys
  10. lover man
  11. lover men

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lovepats (page history and authors); lovepat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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