Meaning of getting any | Babel Free

Definitions

Having sex (habitually, not currently).

euphemistic

Equivalents

Examples

“He's just grumpy because he's not getting any.”

“Are you getting any?”

“Anyone who's played on a record date / Will remember Stage Door Jenny / Well, I saw her last night, and, man / She looked like she wasn't gettin' any (Aww)”

“These were the questions boys asked other boys at my school (a school which contained only boys): ‘Are you getting any?’; ‘Does she let you have any?’; ‘How much does she let you have?’ and so on.”

“When you haven't been getting any, other people notice that.... You yourself don't know that you haven't been getting any, you just think, "oh, another week has gone by." ...But, on the other hand, when I haven't been getting any and then I get some, overnight I become a different person. ... Next day you wake up, you're Mahatma Gandhi.”

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