tonsil-hockey

Deep mouth kissing

Tonsil-hockey is slang for passionate kissing, especially deep or prolonged French kissing.

The playful term imagines tongues as hockey sticks battling in the mouth: They were playing tonsil-hockey in the back of the car.

Humorous and slightly crude.

slang

French-kissing

Kissing with tongue contact

lip-locking · canoodling · macking

teenage

backseat

Vehicle's rearward passenger area

  • promHigh school formal dance
  • partyGathering for celebration
  • lockerSecured storage compartment

bleachers · parking · curfew · sneaking · hormones · crush · hickey · grounded · basement · drive-in

humor

euphemism

Mild substitute for bluntness

crude · cheeky · locker-room · bawdy · double-entendre · risque · tongue-in-cheek · wisecrack · juvenile · snicker

Opposites
intensity of physical affection

tonsil-hockeypeck

Dry measure or quick kiss

air kiss · quick kiss · cheek kiss · butterfly kiss · forehead kiss

physical intimacy vs distance

tonsil-hockeycold shoulder

Intentional dismissive treatment

rejection · recoil · avoidance · standoffishness · turning away

physical intimacy vs. distance

tonsil-hockeycold shoulder

Intentional dismissive treatment

standoffishness · aloofness · handshake · formal greeting · wave

Family

tonsil, tonsils, tonsillitis, tonsillectomy, hockey

Familiarity
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13