sleep around
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Definition
Verb: - To engage in sexual activity with multiple different partners, often in a casual or promiscuous manner, without commitment to a single person.
Usage
This verb is used to describe habitual or repeated casual sexual behavior with multiple partners. It often carries a judgmental or disapproving tone. It is typically used in informal contexts.
Examples
Advanced Usage
- The phrase is often used in the continuous tense to describe ongoing behavior.
- She's been sleeping around since she moved to the city.
- It can be used in a generalized, non-specific way.
- I'm not interested in sleeping around.
Variants and Related Words
- Promiscuous (adj): Having many sexual partners.
- He had a reputation for being promiscuous.
- Philander (verb): (Usually of a man) to have casual sexual relationships with many women.
- He was known to philander while his wife was away.
Synonyms
- Be promiscuous: To have many sexual partners.
- Fool around: To engage in casual sexual activity (can also mean to joke or not be serious).
- Have casual sex: To engage in sexual activity without emotional commitment.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Sleep with: To have sex with someone. (This specifies a partner, whereas "sleep around" implies many unspecified partners).
- Did he sleep with her? (Specific)
- He sleeps around. (General, non-specific)
Related Idioms
- Play the field: To date or have romantic/sexual relationships with more than one person at a time.
- He's not ready to settle down; he's still playing the field.
Verb
- be sexually active with more than one partner
- His wife bed hops