bed-breaking

English

Alternative forms

• bedbreaking, bed breaking

Etymology

Compound of bed +‎ breaking, from the image of sex that is so wild that the bed on which it occurs falls apart from the strain.

Adjective

bed-breaking (comparative more bed-breaking, superlative most bed-breaking)

1. Sexually wild, uninhibited, and energetic.
   • 2000, John Paschal, ‎Mark Louis, The Single Man, page 156:

     The upside of the stormy affair is the nightly session of wall-shaking, ground-quaking, bed-breaking, neighbor-waking make-up sex.

   • 2011, Cate Lord, Lucky Girl:

     Their passionate gazes would be locked in silent promise of more bed-breaking sex romps in the coming hours.

   • 2012, Kelly Oliver, Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down, page 205:

     Edward is the epitome of thoughtfulnes who devotes himself to his wife's well-being, even if that means controlling his vampire urges to taste her sweet-smelling blood, and his teenage hormones that want more bed-breaking sex.

   • 2020, Cynthia Eden, Crossing The Line:

     Because I thought you were just bragging before, when we first came into the bungalow and you told me that as newlyweds, we were supposed to be 'having wild, bed-breaking sex.'”

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bed,‎ breaking.