Definition of Sleeping around

1. Noun. Indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations.

Exact synonyms: Promiscuity, Promiscuousness
Generic synonyms: Sex, Sex Activity, Sexual Activity, Sexual Practice
Specialized synonyms: One-night Stand
Derivative terms: Promiscuous, Promiscuous

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleeping Around

sleeper cells
sleeper goby
sleeper nest
sleepers
sleepery
sleepest
sleepeth
sleepful
sleepfulness
sleepier
sleepiest
sleepily
sleepiness
sleepinesses
sleeping
sleeping around (current term)
sleeping at the switch
sleeping bag
sleeping bags
sleeping beauty
sleeping capsule
sleeping car
sleeping cars
sleeping draught
sleeping giant
sleeping giants
sleeping hibiscus
sleeping lions
sleeping off
sleeping partner

Literary usage of Sleeping around

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People by John Newton Boucher, John Woolf Jordan (1908)
"Crawling like animals they came almost 'in touch with the Indians, who, with their prisoners, were sleeping around the embers of the camp fire. ..."

2. Annual Reports of the Children's Aid Society by N.Y. Children's Aid Society (New York, Children's Aid Society, Children's Aid Society Staff, Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) (1854)
"... was with Jir II. for two months, was not treated well by him, so left, and was then for some time very "hard up ;" was sleeping around everywhere, ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices by Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck (1856)
"In wakeful mood I mused upon the storied past awhile, Watching the moon, that with the same mild eye Had looked upon the mighty Lybian kings sleeping around ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices by Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck (1856)
"In wakeful mood I mused upon the storied past awhile, Watching the moon, that with the same mild eye Had looked upon the mighty Lybian kings sleeping around ..."

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