Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sexual stimulation preceding intercourse.
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- noun In human
sexual behavior, the acts at the beginning of a sexual encounter that serve to build up sexualarousal , sometimes in preparation for sexualintercourse or another act meant to bring aboutorgasm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
Etymologies
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Examples
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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 2010
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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.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010
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Dr. Smith's assertion about licit kinds of foreplay is indeed old orthodoxy teaching.
Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West 2009
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My impression is they were not engaging in foreplay but some kind of consummate act.
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Watch an erotic film together or buy some edible underwear or engage in foreplay that involves whipped cream or body butter.
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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.
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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.
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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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.
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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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.
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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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!
lampbane commented on the word foreplay
Getting out of hand.
November 17, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word foreplay
Nice link.
November 17, 2007