intercourse
noun
[ ˈɪntəkɔːs ]
• communication or dealings between individuals or groups.
• "everyday social intercourse"
Similar:
dealings,
relations,
relationships,
association,
connections,
contact,
interchange,
communication,
intercommunication,
communion,
correspondence,
negotiations,
bargaining,
transactions,
proceedings,
trade,
trading,
business,
commerce,
traffic,
trafficking,
truck,
doings,
• short for sexual intercourse.
Similar:
sexual intercourse,
sex,
lovemaking,
making love,
sex act,
act of love,
sexual relations,
intimate relations,
intimacy,
coupling,
mating,
going to bed with someone,
sleeping with someone,
nooky,
bonking,
rumpy pumpy,
a bit of the other,
how's your father,
pata-pata,
coitus,
coition,
copulation,
fornication,
carnal knowledge,
(sexual) congress,
commerce,
screwing,
fucking,
shagging,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French entrecours ‘exchange, commerce’, from Latin intercursus, from intercurrere ‘intervene’, from inter- ‘between’ + currere ‘run’. The specifically sexual use arose in the late 18th century.
