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troilist

troilist adjective: involving three sexual partners; pertaining to a threesome.

Adjective

troilist (not comparable)

  1. Involving three sexual partners; pertaining to a threesome.
    • But, once they had properly got into their stride, the three singers whipped themselves up into a frenzy of sexual abandon, attaining heights of troilist ingenuity worthy of some erotomaniac Heath Robinson […]1992, Gilbert Adair, The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice
    • She has a troilist marriage with two men in her home department in South America.1999, W Warren Wagar, A Short History of the Future, page 198

Noun

troilist (plural troilists)

  1. A participant in a sexual threesome.

Forms of troilist

pluraltroilists

Questions about troilist

What does troilist mean?
Troilist means involving three sexual partners; pertaining to a threesome.
What part of speech is troilist?
Troilist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near troilist in the dictionary

  1. troids
  2. troika
  3. troikas
  4. troiki
  5. troilism
  6. troilist
  7. troilistic
  8. troilists
  9. troilite
  10. troilites
  11. Troilus

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