exercise the ferret

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English

Verb

exercise the ferret (third-person singular simple present exercises the ferret, present participle exercising the ferret, simple past and past participle exercised the ferret)

  1. (Australia, slang, humorous) Of a man: to have penetrative sexual intercourse.
    • 1991, Marcus Clark, Sheba's Vow, page 404:
      And while you're up send someone to fetch two women. I feel like exercising the ferret tonight.
    • 1995, Fabulous at Fifty: Fifty of the best from Australian short stories, page 292:
      [] some good-hearted old tart with whom to exercise the ferret.

References

  • Tony Thorne (2014) “exercise the ferret”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  : Bloomsbury