Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person with whom one has sex occasionally or frequently, but with whom one is not having a romantic relationship.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of fuck buddy.

Etymologies

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From fuck + buddy.

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Examples

  • It's a road trip story, with a first-person female narrator who with her fuckbuddy Schwartz encounters an Iraq war deserter named Sanchez -- a relative of the Gen. Sanchez disgraced by the Abu Ghraib tortures -- who wants to be driven to Juarez to this camp where Kellogg Root Brown guys and other deserters are training Mexicans for the war on terror or something.

    Literary Death Match: Wednesday Night in Washington Square Park 2007

  • I mean, if you have a good fuckbuddy relationship going, why would you advertise in the swingers 'board, where by all accounts you have to sift through thousands of horny males and loser couples to find a decent hookup - and if not, why would you both make this into some sort of strange communal project?

    Netflix Hates Me 2005

  • Thing is, being in this febrile mindset, over the Christmas period I got to thinking about just how many heroes of myth were basically gay as a yellow duster, from Gilgamesh with his little furry fuckbuddy Enkidu onwards.

    Kouroi Hal Duncan 2005

  • Thing is, being in this febrile mindset, over the Christmas period I got to thinking about just how many heroes of myth were basically gay as a yellow duster, from Gilgamesh with his little furry fuckbuddy Enkidu onwards.

    Archive 2005-01-01 Hal Duncan 2005

  • Anyway, regarding little Ricky, I'm sure the news of his impending resignation will come as a shock to his erstwhile fuckbuddy colleague Katherine "Pontoons" Harris.

    Archive 2007-04-22 Sinfonian 2007

  • Anyway, regarding little Ricky, I'm sure the news of his impending resignation will come as a shock to his erstwhile fuckbuddy colleague Katherine "Pontoons" Harris.

    Today's Daily Schadenfreude Sinfonian 2007

  • First of all, you can only call someone a fuckbuddy if you know the limits.

    semi-detached 2006

  • He then said something like, I have myself recently begun barebacking again with a fuckbuddy in upstate New York.

    Archive 2005-11-01 2005

  • He then said something like, I have myself recently begun barebacking again with a fuckbuddy in upstate New York.

    Delany at Dartmouth: The Dirt 2005

  • Mike is telling us in the car on the way back about his roommate, Jessica, and how Jessica's occasional fuckbuddy, David, slept with a friend of hers, so she's pissed off.

    Cat Rambo catrambo 2003

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