feel up

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

feel up (third-person singular simple present feels up, present participle feeling up, simple past and past participle felt up)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To grope someone, especially someone's breasts, in a sexual manner.
   • 2009, Arlene Gorey, My Spanking Diary, page 28:

     “Feel me up and rub your pussy against mine, that'll make the pain in my bummy go away, it will,” she told me. I felt sorry for her. And I guess that's why I let her show me how girls made out without boys.

   • 2013, Dan Pope, In the Cherry Tree‎^[1], →ISBN:

     Mostly we heard her laughing and the squeaking of the porch swing while the boyfriend felt her up. All the boys went to second base with Diana Estabrook.

Usage notes

Unrelated to feel up to, which is broken down like feel + up to.

Synonyms

• (to caress): pet, tit up, touch up; see also Thesaurus:fondle

Translations

grope in a sexual manner

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吃豆腐 (zh) (chī dòufu)

• Latin: depsō, perdepsō, subigitō
• Polish: macać (pl) impf, pomacać pf, obmacywać (pl) impf, obmacać (pl) pf

See also

• touch up