knock boots
Be physically intimate
Knock boots is slang for having sex.
The phrase evokes the image of footwear colliding during intimate activity: We've been knocking boots for a few months now.
It emerged in 1990s hip-hop and remains casual and slightly playful rather than crude.
- hookupCasual sexual encounter
- make loveSexual intercourse
- euphemismMild substitute for bluntness
- slangInformal in-group vocabulary
- sleep togetherHave carnal relations
copulate · horizontal tango · idiom · casual · pump · Netflix and chill · booty call · bump uglies · hanky-panky · do it · bone · romp · get some · get it on · smash · slam · screw · fuck
knock bootsabstain
Deliberately not do
celibacy · abstinence · refrain · go without · keep one's pants on
knock bootsno touching
Prohibition on physical contact
keep your distance · keep one's distance · hands off · friendzone · give the cold shoulder
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