Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Sexual stimulation preceding intercourse.
Wiktionary
- n. In human sexual behavior, the acts at the beginning of a sexual encounter that serve to build up sexual arousal, sometimes in preparation for sexual intercourse or another act meant to bring about orgasm.
WordNet 3.0
- n. mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
Etymologies
- From fore- + play (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Her fertility is also increased if the couple engages in foreplay beforehand, of which oral sex can be considered a variety.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
“My impression is they were not engaging in foreplay but some kind of consummate act.”
“Dr. Smith's assertion about licit kinds of foreplay is indeed old orthodoxy teaching.”
Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West
“Garofalo's Allegory of Love (1530), with its two couples engaging in foreplay, was exiled from 1860 to the 1930s, and on return consigned to the basement until its restoration in 1992.”
“Watch an erotic film together or buy some edible underwear or engage in foreplay that involves whipped cream or body butter.”
“My wife says foreplay is important to her, so I let her suck on my balls a little while before I take the 56 seconds to bang her.”
“Even drive-ins, once respectable gathering places for the lower-middle class, have started closing their playgrounds on certain nights and running what might be called foreplay films, a genre slightly dirtier than the old-fashioned skin flick and slightly cleaner than hard-core hump and grind.”
“We’ve already seen all the promo posters, all the preview videos and the entire mini-series of A Drop of True Blood … the time for foreplay is over!”
“I can’t wait ’til we get to June 13 … all this foreplay is driving me crazy!”
“Any other man and she’d call it foreplay, except nothing ever comes of it in that direction.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘foreplay’.
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Fore!
That great old English prefix, quaint almost by default!
foredoom, forename, foretoken, foremast, forebear, foresee, forecastle, forestay, foreskin, foretell, foreshadow, foreclose and 79 more...
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adamogiovane's Words
older woman, younger man, age gap relationship, non-fiction, sensuality, relationship, life, sex, love, hugs, kisses, breast and 147 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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sexual feelings
words describing the sexual parts of life
snog, shag, copulate, intercourse, paraphilia, carnal, fetish, fornicate, abstinence, foreplay, coitus, chastity and 119 more...
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Words from 2009 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' film.
ravishing, juggle, rehearsal, in bulk, hoard, miser, detract, appendage, ordain, slick, scent, innuendo and 68 more...
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the smut-list
celibacy, rubber, coitus, foreplay, phallus, bukkake, cunnilingus, frottage, bugger, erotica, condom, booby and 63 more...
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What does xkcd mean?
Well, it means this. But here's a list too.
snapple, elefino, ass-car, science, class-hole, katamari, velociraptor, fucking, hedgeclipper, centrifugal force, blogofractal, pointers and 27 more...
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Naughty Words
fetish, bonk, masturbation, lady garden, bawdy, orgasm, foreplay, lingerie, phallus, cunnilingus, grope, nether regions and 2 more...
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Let's Talk About Sex
pansexual, bisexual, heterosexual, homosexual, intercourse, coitus, copulation, foreplay, orgasm, phallus, phallic, yonic and 14 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for foreplay.
sonofgroucho Nice link. Nov 17, 2007
lampbane Getting out of hand. Nov 17, 2007