coitus

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But mid-coitus, the Mother looks over on the television and sees a terrorist bomb go off in the soccer stadium, killing both her husband and son.

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  1. noun Sexual union between a male and a female involving insertion of the penis into the vagina.

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  • To conduct the study, amniotic fluid was collected from pregnant mice between 9.5 and 19.5 days post-coitus. —  innovations-report
  • He does nothing to interrupt mum's extramarital coitus, but wastes no time telling her what he thinks of her afterward. —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
  • It's a misogynistic society to boot; an American teammate had a girl over the first night, and the post-coitus conversation amounted to her begging him not to kick her out. —  Deadspin
  • It seems the yacht was some sort of whorehouse at sea, where all high-ranking public officials have been filmed in various degrees of coitus, and a psychotic woman is enlisted whose idea of interrogation involves slicing up her subjects to death. —  Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About
  • Permit will ensure that any offspring produced by the coitus are genetically non-problematic and therefore not a significant burden on the taxpayers —  the will to exist
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  1. Latin, from past participle of coīre, to copulate : co-, co- + īre, to go, come; see ei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, a meeting (in this sense also cœtus), coition (in this sense only coitus), a meeting, assemblage (in this sense only cœtus: see cete), from coire, come together, meet: see coition.
 

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