sleep around

verb

1. 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

If our daughter has gone to sleep around 8, this will usually be maybe 9, 9:30 depending on if I’ve fallen asleep in the bed next door.

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Eyewitnesses told the BBC that devotees had been sleeping around the barricades of the Sangam nose - the point of confluence of the rivers - when the crowd surged towards them, leading to the crush.

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Unable to sleep around 2 a.m. last Wednesday, Sean St. John got out of bed and drove from his Pasadena home to check on his Altadena pizzeria, Pizza of Venice.

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In it, Penelope Hegseth calls her son a man who "belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego."

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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.

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