foreplay
[fawr-pley, fohr-]
- sexual stimulation of one's partner, usually as a prelude to sexual intercourse.
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Origin of foreplay
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Dirty talk can be a huge part of foreplay and even heighten the experience of sex for some.
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Even so, my advice to a young man marrying a Jewish girl would be to have three and a half years of foreplay.
And sometimes, the foreplay—and any pretense of innuendo—is skipped altogether.
foreplay
- mutual sexual stimulation preceding sexual intercourse
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Word Origin and History for foreplay
n.
in sexual sense, by 1911, from fore- + play (n.). Earlier as a theatrical term (by 1857).
In fact the poem which Mr. Brooks has translated is but the "prologue to the swelling theme," the fore-play to the actual drama of Faust. ["The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany," Jan.-May 1857]
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foreplay
(fôr′plā′)- The sexual stimulation that precedes intercourse.
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