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sleep around
verb
- informal.intr, adverb to be sexually promiscuous
Idioms and Phrases
Engage in sex promiscuously, as in Fortunately, no one mentioned that both of them had slept around in their younger days . [ Colloquial ; 1920s]Example Sentences
Eyewitnesses told the BBC that devotees had been sleeping around the barricades of the Sangam nose - the point of confluence of the rivers - when the crowd surged towards them, leading to the crush.
Unable to sleep around 2 a.m. last Wednesday, Sean St. John got out of bed and drove from his Pasadena home to check on his Altadena pizzeria, Pizza of Venice.
In it, Penelope Hegseth calls her son a man who "belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego."
It's hard for people to imagine a man who likes to sleep around as much as he does would be opposed to technology that prevents some of the negative consequences.
Then I managed to get forty winks or so of sleep around sunrise.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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