booty call

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noun Slang.

a phone call, text message, email, etc., whose purpose is to arrange a meeting to have casual sex.

a meeting to have casual sex, initiated by a phone call, text message, etc.

a person who is invited to have casual sex by a phone call, text message, etc.

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Origin of booty call

First recorded in 1990-95; booty² + call

Words nearby booty call

bootstrap paradox, boottopping, boot tree, boot up, booty, booty call, bootylicious, boo-word, booyah, booze, booze cruise

How to use booty call in a sentence

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Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.
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Who else would see a former spouse accused of underage sex and call him ‘the greatest man there is’?
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Almost everyone I spoke to said they have used JSwipe because they are specifically not just looking for a booty call.
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Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.
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It was like his beautiful courtesy to call me in and introduce me to Blow instead of letting me go away.
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After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.
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"I call you," the policeman said, and stripping the saddle and bridle from his sweaty horse, turned him loose to graze.
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Each did his duty, or was adjured to do it, in the "state of life to which it had pleased God to call him."
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British Dictionary definitions for booty call

booty call

noun

slang a meeting arranged for the purpose of having sex

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