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knock boots en · VERB

Pronunciation

Etymology

Perhaps from the notion that boots placed beneath one's bed knock one another due to the shaking of the bed during sex.

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic, slang) To have sexual intercourse, especially recreationally if not casually.
    • You ain't knocking boots/ You ain't treating me like no prostitute 1986, “Tramp”, in Hot, Cool & Vicious, performed by Salt-n-Pepa:
    • After we done, bill a spliff and cotch / Pour me a glass of the Henny on the rocks / And get ready for round two / Cause any time we knock boots you know we knock twice 2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega, “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know:
    • Of course they fall madly and deeply in love, as Biker Dude learns to respect a girl who won't knock boots on the first date. 1994, Marshall Crenshaw, Hollywood Rock, HarperPerennial, published 1994, →ISBN, page 250:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
knocks boots Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
knocking boots Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
knocked boots Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
knocked boots Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

get some · slap bellies · hook up · bump nasties · Netflix and chill · do it