Thesaurus:copulate

Thesaurus

copulate

English

Verb

Sense: to engage in sexual intercourse (intransitive)

Synonyms

Formal terms

• approach (archaic, euphemistic)
• cohabit (archaic)
• company (obsolete)
• copulate
• couple
• engage in sex
• exchange flesh (euphemistic)
• get physical
• have intimate relations
• have marital relations (euphemistic)
• have sex    [⇒ thesaurus]
• have sexual relations
• intercourse
• know
• know someone in the biblical sense
• make love (euphemistic)
• mate
• share a bed (euphemistic)
• sleep together (euphemistic)
• strain (obsolete)

Informal and slang terms

• bang    [⇒ thesaurus]
• bauf (rare)
• beat (UK)
• bone
• boff
• boink
• bonk
• bop
• bounce (AAVE)
• breed
• bump nasties
• bump uglies
• catch a dick
• dance    [⇒ thesaurus] (euphemistic)
• discuss Uganda (UK, euphemistic, humorous)
• dip one's pen in someone's inkwell (euphemistic)
• do it (euphemistic)
• do the deed (euphemistic)
• do the nasty (euphemistic)
• eff (euphemistic)
• engender (obsolete)
• expletive deleted (rare, euphemistic, humorous)
• feck (Ireland, euphemistic)
• frack (euphemistic)
• frak (euphemistic)
• frick (euphemistic)
• frig (euphemistic)
• fuck    [⇒ thesaurus]
• get busy
• get freaky
• get it (euphemistic)
• get it on
• get jiggy
• get laid
• get lucky
• get one's dick wet
• get one's end away
• get one's freak on (US, idiomatic)
• get one's groove on
• get one's leg over
• get one's oats
• get some (US, euphemistic)
• get the dirty water off one's chest (UK, idiomatic)
• graft the forked tree (obsolete, rare)
• go all the way (euphemistic)
• haul one's ashes (euphemistic)
• have it away
• have it off
• have sex    [⇒ thesaurus]
• hide the salami (euphemistic)
• hide the sausage (euphemistic)
• hook up
• hump
• jig-jig (chiefly pidgin)
• knock boots
• lay pipe
• lay the pipe
• make it (idiomatic)
• make out
• make the beast with two backs
• make whoopee
• meddle (now US dialect)
• ming (obsolete)
• Netflix and chill (euphemistic)
• pipe down
• play
• play hide the sausage
• ride
• rock and roll (US, dated, euphemistic)
• roger
• roll around
• root
• screw
• see someone's etchings (euphemistic)
• sex (chiefly US)
• shag
• shelve (Wales)
• show someone one's etchings (euphemistic)
• slap bellies
• stick    [⇒ thesaurus] (US)
• tumble

Antonyms

• abstain
• keep it in one's pants (idiomatic)
• wouldn't touch with yours (slang)

Hyponyms

• fornicate
• close one's eyes and think of England (idiomatic)
• creep (AAVE)
• fuck around
• get around
• have an affair
• lose one's virginity
• procreate    [⇒ thesaurus]
• prostitute oneself    [⇒ thesaurus]
• pull a train
• ride the cock carousel
• screw around
• smash and dash
• starfuck
• take it to the next level

Hypernyms

• act sexually    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• getting any (euphemistic)
• getting enough (euphemistic)

See also

• Thesaurus:copulate with (transitive verbs)
• Thesaurus:copulation
• See contents of Category:Thesaurus:Sex
• Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 374a. Sexuality
• Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 43. Junction

Further reading

• “copulate” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.