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Meaning of bump and grind | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. A sexually suggestive dance involving exaggerated hip movements, especially a striptease dance.
  2. A combination of movements resembling such a dance, as in road racing, whitewater kayaking, or exercising; any activity involving prolonged jarring or shaking.

Equivalents

Suomi grindata
Latina cordax
Nederlands schuren
Português sarrar

Examples

“One of the oddest spectacles in America, in fact, has to be a Tom Jones audience, in which a couple of dozen women, usually attractive and well dressed, throw their panties onto the stage and compete for what appears to be a deep kiss from the male master of the bump and grind.”
“"There's inevitably a bump and grind when someone new comes into an established organization," says former senior adviser Rahm Emanuel.”
“The typical bump and grind of short-track racing at Bristol Motor Speedway met with the panicked push of the final races of the Nascar Nextel Cup.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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