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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:booty callWikipedia

Alternative forms

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• bootie call
• booty-call (verb only)

Etymology

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Coined early 1990s, attributed to Bill Bellamy on Def Comedy Jam.

Pronunciation

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• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

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booty call (plural booty calls)

1. (slang) A telephone call made to request a sexual encounter.
2. (slang) A sexual encounter arranged by telephone.
3. (slang) The recipient of a telephone call requesting a sexual encounter.
4. (slang) An encounter for the purposes of casual sex.
   • 2016, Helen Callaghan, Dear Amy, →ISBN, page 25:You left me for another woman and now you're here on a booty call, that's what the matter is.
   • 2018, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 3717: Clinton's Mom Knows How To Party:"My mom gets 2am booty calls. My mom is cooler than me."
   • 2022, Kosoko Jackson, chapter 1, in A Dash of Salt and Pepper, Berkley, →ISBN, page 1:You up? In most circles, that text would read like a very ineloquently crafted booty call, one that absolutely should not warrant a response.

Translations

[edit] telephone call

Chinese: Mandarin: 約炮 / 约炮 (yuē pào) Dutch: bootycall (nl) m Finnish: vonkauspuhelu

sexual encounter arranged by telephone

Chinese: Mandarin: 約炮 / 约炮 (yuē pào) Dutch: seksafspraakje n, seksdate m Finnish: pano (fi), seksitreffit pl

recipient of a telephone call

Chinese: Mandarin: 約炮 / 约炮 (yuē pào) Dutch: bootycall (nl) m, scharrel (nl) m or f Finnish: panokaveri

encounter for the purposes of casual sex

Chinese: Mandarin: 約炮 / 约炮 (yuē pào) Dutch: seksafspraakje n, seksdate m, vluggertje (nl) n Finnish: pano (fi), seksitreffit pl German: Sextreffen n Serbo-Croatian: poziv na seks m

Verb

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booty call (third-person singular simple present booty calls, present participle booty calling, simple past and past participle booty called)

1. (transitive) To make a booty call.
   • 2013, Jonathan Bree, “Booty Call”, in The Primrose Path:And it wouldn’t be the same / If you hit send again / If you booty call again tonight

Translations

[edit] to make a booty call

Chinese: Mandarin: 約炮 / 约炮 (yuē pào) Dutch: bootycallen Finnish: soittaa vonkauspuhelu

Derived terms

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• foodie call

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