booty call meaning (slang): definition, etymology and quotations

booty call

noun

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

Slang A telephone call made to request a sexual encounter.

This is a booty call / My boot, my boot, your arsehole / This is a Freudian slip2009, “The Fun Powder Plot”, in Two Dancers, performed by Wild Beasts:

Slang A sexual encounter arranged by telephone.

Slang The recipient of a telephone call requesting a sexual encounter.

Slang An encounter for the purposes of casual sex.

You left me for another woman and now you're here on a booty call, that's what the matter is.2016, Helen Callaghan, Dear Amy, →ISBN, page 25:
"My mom gets 2am booty calls. My mom is cooler than me."2018, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 3717: Clinton's Mom Knows How To Party:

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You up? In most circles, that text would read like a very ineloquently crafted booty call, one that absolutely should not warrant a response.2022, Kosoko Jackson, chapter 1, in A Dash of Salt and Pepper, Berkley, →ISBN, page 1:

verb

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

To make a booty call.

And it wouldn’t be the same / If you hit send again / If you booty call again tonight2013, Jonathan Bree, “Booty Call”, in The Primrose Path: