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party and play

party and play noun: uninhibited, high-risk sexual activity accompanied by the use of recreational drugs.

Noun

party and play (uncountable)

  1. Uninhibited, high-risk sexual activity accompanied by the use of recreational drugs.
    • Consider Steve, a 32-year-old Latino, someone interviewed as part of a larger study in Long Beach, CA, as he discusses his predilection toward identifying himself as HIV positive in party and play (drug and sex) situations (situations he sees as the essential core of gay cultural life in Long...2009, Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., “Living with and Experiencing Disease”, in Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, Graham Moon, editors, A Companion to Health and Medical Geography, →DOI, →ISBN, page 198
    Synonyms:
    chemsex, PNP

Verb

party and play (third-person singular simple present parties and plays, present participle partying and playing, simple past and past participle partied and played)

  1. (intransitive) To engage in such activity.
    • And they must manage this in a gay culture founded on the liberation of sexuality, on partying and playing, but which now faces an a resurgent HIV epidemic caused by crystal meth-fueled sex […]2008, American Anthropological Association, Abstracts of the Annual Meeting, volume 107, page 294
    • Drugs, raw sex, sex parties, meth, HIV, herpes, hepatitis, open relationships, Partying and Playing. . . . R U Looking?2013, Selrach Smith, R U Looking?: A Guide to Navigating Gay Dating, page 38

Synonyms of party and play

Forms of party and play

third-person singular presentparties and plays
present participlepartying and playing
past participlepartied and played
pastpartied and played

Questions about party and play

What does party and play mean?
Party and play means uninhibited, high-risk sexual activity accompanied by the use of recreational drugs.
What part of speech is party and play?
Party and play can be a noun or a verb.

Words near party and play in the dictionary

  1. partwork
  2. partworks
  3. party
  4. Party A
  5. party and party costs
  6. party and play
  7. party animal
  8. party animals
  9. Party B
  10. party bag
  11. party bags

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