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bed-breaking en · ADJ

Etymology

Compound of bed + breaking, from the image of sex that is so wild that the bed on which it occurs falls apart from the strain.

Meanings

1. Sexually wild, uninhibited, and energetic.
   • The upside of the stormy affair is the nightly session of wall-shaking, ground-quaking, bed-breaking, neighbor-waking make-up sex. 2000, John Paschal, Mark Louis, The Single Man, page 156:
   • Edward is the epitome of thoughtfulnes who devotes himself to his wife's well-being, even if that means controlling his vampire urges to taste her sweet-smelling blood, and his teenage hormones that want more bed-breaking sex. 2012, Kelly Oliver, Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down, page 205:
   • Because I thought you were just bragging before, when we first came into the bungalow and you told me that as newlyweds, we were supposed to be 'having wild, bed-breaking sex.'” 2020, Cynthia Eden, Crossing The Line:
   • Their passionate gazes would be locked in silent promise of more bed-breaking sex romps in the coming hours. 2011, Cate Lord, Lucky Girl:
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bed, breaking.

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