Meaning of bump and grind | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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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.”

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