sex
noun
[ sɛks ]
• (chiefly with reference to people) sexual activity, including specifically sexual intercourse.
• "they enjoyed talking about sex"
Similar:
sexual intercourse,
intercourse,
lovemaking,
making love,
sex act,
sexual relations,
mating,
nooky,
bonking,
rumpy pumpy,
a bit of the other,
how's your father,
pata-pata,
coitus,
coition,
copulation,
fornication,
carnal knowledge,
congress,
commerce,
the facts of life,
sexual reproduction,
reproduction,
the birds and the bees,
have sexual intercourse,
make love,
sleep with/together,
go to bed with/together,
mate,
seduce,
do it,
do the business,
go all the way,
make whoopee,
have one's way with,
bed,
know in the biblical sense,
tumble,
bonk,
get one's oats,
boff,
get it on,
be intimate,
copulate,
fornicate,
possess,
lie with/together,
couple,
swive,
know,
screwing,
fucking,
shagging,
fuck,
screw,
bang,
lay,
get one's leg over,
shaft,
dick,
frig,
do,
have,
hump,
poke,
shtup,
dip one's wick,
ride,
service,
have it off,
have it away,
shag,
knob,
get one's end away,
knock someone off,
give someone one,
roger,
grind,
stuff,
tup,
podger,
ball,
jump,
jump someone's bones,
bone,
pork,
diddle,
nail,
root,
• either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.
• "adults of both sexes"
sex
verb
• determine the sex of.
• "each bird would need to be individually sexed"
• present something in a more interesting or lively way.
• arouse or attempt to arouse someone sexually.
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting the two categories, male and female): from Old French sexe or Latin sexus .
sex-
combining form
• variant spelling of sexi-, shortened before a vowel (as in sexennial ), or shortened before a consonant (as in sexfoil ).
sexi-
combining form
• six; having six.
• "sexivalent"
Origin:
from Latin sex ‘six’.
