get one's leg over

English

Alternative forms

• get a leg over

Pronunciation

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Verb

get one's leg over (third-person singular simple present gets one's leg over, present participle getting one's leg over, simple past got one's leg over, past participle (UK) got one's leg over or (US) gotten one's leg over)

1. (intransitive, slang) To have sex

   It's all well and good having a relationship, but at the end of the day all I want to do is get my leg over.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get,‎ one's,‎ leg,‎ over.
   • 1991, Jonathan Agnew, BBC Test Match Special, describing Ian Botham treading on his stumps; quoted in Cris Freddi, The Guinness Book of Cricket Blunders, Guinness Publishing, 1996, →ISBN, page 138:

     He just didn't quite get his leg over.

Synonyms

• (to have sex): do it, get one's end away, get one's groove on; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Derived terms

• legover

Related terms

• get over on