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notch on one's bedpost en · NOUN

From the practice of keeping track of the number of one's sexual liaisons by carving notches into the post of one's bed.

(idiomatic, offensive, slang) A sexual conquest; a casual sexual partner.
- He was a notch on her bedpost, a stepping stone on her quest for stardom. 2002, Anne McAllister, The Great Montana Cowboy Auction, Silhouette Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 22:
- She'd confused Sam's attentions with real feelings, and now she was just another notch on his bedpost. 2007, Melinda Curtis, Count on Love, Harlequin, published 2007, →ISBN, page 167:
- […] He wasn't a notch on her bedpost. They were in love, for crying out loud. 2011, Peter Robinson, Before the Poison, McClelland & Stewart, published 2011, →ISBN:
- Bad enough to think he'd wanted me as just another notch on his bedpost, but to think he'd tried to seduce me for cold-blooded political purposes was unbearable. 2010, Jenna Black, Glimmerglass, St. Martin's Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 138:

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notch in one's bedpost		alternative	lexicographic
notches on one's bedpost	Number=Plur		lexicographic