knock boots
English
Etymology
Perhaps from the notion that boots placed beneath one's bed knock one another due to the shaking of the bed during sex.
Pronunciation
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Verb
knock boots (third-person singular simple present knocks boots, present participle knocking boots, simple past and past participle knocked boots)
- (slang, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse, especially recreationally if not casually.
- 1986, “Tramp”, in Hot, Cool & Vicious, performed by Salt-n-Pepa:
- You ain't knocking boots/ You ain't treating me like no prostitute
- 1994, Marshall Crenshaw, Hollywood Rock, HarperPerennial, published 1994, →ISBN, page 250:
- 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.
- 2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega, “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know:
- After we done, bill a spliff and cotch / Pour me a glass of the Henny on the rocks / And get ready for round two / Cause any time we knock boots you know we knock twice
Synonyms
- do it, get some, hook up, Netflix and chill; bump nasties, slap bellies; see also Thesaurus:copulate