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(intr, adverb) informal to be sexually promiscuous
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Words nearby sleep around

sleekit, sleeky, sleep, sleep apnea, sleep apnoea, sleep around, sleep-away, sleep a wink, not, sleepcoat, sleep debt, sleep-deprived
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Words related to sleep around

fool around, fornicate, have sex, make love, screw

How to use sleep around in a sentence

  • “Angels,” by contrast, is used ironically to refer to girls who sleep around a lot but no one knows about it.

    New Sumner Girl on Payroll|Peter Lauria|July 28, 2010|DAILY BEAST

  • Children dance, play and sleep around the mask from which the jet of water would issue.

    Donatello|David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford

  • "Yes; the boys sleep around it nights," she went on to confide.

    The Girl of the Golden West|David Belasco

Other Idioms and Phrases with sleep around

sleep around

Engage in sex promiscuously, as in Fortunately, no one mentioned that both of them had slept around in their younger days. [Colloquial; 1920s]

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