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horizontal refreshments pl (plural only)
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
1846 January, Richard George Augustus Levinge, “Echoes from the Backwoods”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 76, number 301, chapter 2, page 38:The cold, during the winter night, is very severe, and the sentinels are frequently obliged to be relieved every half-hour, and the officers, so long as they possess the "prima flora juvenus," may enjoy horizontal refreshments in peace; but when they obtained those manly appendages, yclept whiskers, find that turing in bed becomes hopeless, and being "brought up with a round turn," discover that they have become frozen to the sheets.
2015 February 9, Mollie Hemingway, “A Sex Week For The Rest Of Us”, in The Federalist, retrieved 2017-06-01:Here at The Federalist, we talk about sex a lot as is. Join us this week for some additional fun and deep-thinking about, well, you know — dancing in the sheets, horizontal refreshments, the beast with two backs, Blitzkrieg mit dem fleischgewehr, gland to gland combat, and more.
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