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reach-arounds

reach-arounds is the plural of reach-around.

Meaning of reach-around

Noun

reach-around (plural reach-arounds)

  1. Manual stimulation of a sexual partner's genitals during anal or vaginal intercourse from behind.
    • I bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you.1987, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford, Full Metal Jacket (motion picture), spoken by Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (Ronald Lee Ermey)
  2. (broadly, idiomatic) An ostensibly thoughtful gesture, especially one performed to win favour or mitigate unfair treatment.
  3. A passing style in which the ballhandler performs a crossover step in the direction of the intended pass and then extends his or her arms to throw the pass around the defender.

Questions about reach-arounds

What is reach-arounds the plural of?
Reach-arounds is the plural of reach-around.

Words near reach-arounds in the dictionary

  1. reach rock bottom
  2. reach stacker
  3. reach stackers
  4. reach'd
  5. reach-around
  6. reach-arounds
  7. reach-me-down
  8. reach-me-downs
  9. reach-through
  10. reachabilities
  11. reachability

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