get one's leg over en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(UK, intransitive, slang) To have sex
It's all well and good having a relationship, but at the end of the day all I want to do is get my leg over.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, one's, leg, over.
He just didn't quite get his leg over.
1991, Jonathan Agnew, BBC Test Match Special, describing Ian Botham treading on his stumps; quoted in Cris Freddi, The Guinness Book of Cricket Blunders, Guinness Publishing, 1996, →ISBN, page 138:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gets one's leg over | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| get a leg over | alternative | lexicographic | |
| getting one's leg over | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| got one's leg over | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| got one's leg over | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| gotten one's leg over | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |
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Synonyms
get one's groove on · get one's end away · do it (to have sex)