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sleep around
verb
- informal.intr, adverb to be sexually promiscuous
Idioms and Phrases
Engage in sex promiscuously, as in Fortunately, no one mentioned that both of them had slept around in their younger days . [ Colloquial ; 1920s]Example Sentences
In it, Penelope Hegseth calls her son a man who "belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego."
It's hard for people to imagine a man who likes to sleep around as much as he does would be opposed to technology that prevents some of the negative consequences.
Then I managed to get forty winks or so of sleep around sunrise.
Males are known to ramp up their physical activity during their mating season, but how their sleep quality changed — antechinuses typically sleep around 15 hours a day — remained elusive.
On March 23, 2015, the pair was awakened from sleep around 3 in the morning by a bright white light, three laser dots and a group of intruders wearing wetsuits.
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