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sleep around
verb
- informal.intr, adverb to be sexually promiscuous
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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]Discover More
Example Sentences
“Angels,” by contrast, is used ironically to refer to girls who sleep around a lot but no one knows about it.
Children dance, play and sleep around the mask from which the jet of water would issue.
"Yes; the boys sleep around it nights," she went on to confide.
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