knocking boots
Getting physically close
Knocking boots is slang for having sex.
The phrase evokes the image of boots knocking together during intercourse, though the exact origin is unclear.
It became widely known through hip-hop in the 1990s: They've been knocking boots for months.
The expression is playful rather than crude.
- sexReproductive category or act
- bangingStriking with force
- hooking upCasual sexual encounter
- Netflix and chillEuphemism for romantic encounter
- shaggingRetrieving hit balls
getting it on · intimacy · euphemism · lovemaking · sleeping together · informal · intercourse · horizontal tango · mattress dancing · hanky-panky · slang · coupling · getting busy · bumping uglies · making whoopee · humor · playfulness · metaphor
knocking bootshands off
Forbidding contact or meddling
no touching · just friends · sleeping in separate beds · cold shoulder
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