copulate

UK /ˈkɒp.jʊ.leɪt/ · US /ˈkɔ.pjə.leɪt/

Etymology From Latin cōpulātus, perfect passive participle of cōpulō (“to couple, join, connect”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French copuler.

Synonyms

110 terms

fuck, have sex, make love, screw, swive, bang, sleep together, boff, approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh, have intimate relations, have marital relations, have sexual relations, intercourse, know, know someone in the biblical sense, mate, share a bed, strain, bauf, beat, bone, boink, bonk, bop, bounce, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, clap cheeks, dance, discuss Uganda, dip one's pen in someone's inkwell, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, expletive deleted, frack, frak, frick, frig, get busy, get down, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get lucky, get one's dick wet, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, get the dirty water off one's chest, graft the forked tree, go all the way, haul one's ashes, have it away, have it off, hide the salami, hide the sausage, hide the wienie, hike the Appalachian Trail, hook up, hump, jig-jig, knock boots, lay pipe, lay the pipe, make it, make out, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, meddle, ming, Netflix and chill, penetrate, pipe, pipe down, play, play hide the sausage, pound, rail, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, shaboink, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, stick, tumble

Antonyms

abstain, keep it in one's pants, wouldn't touch with yours

Derived terms

copulater, copulatingly, pseudocopulate, recopulate, retrocopulate

Related terms

copulability, copulable, copulatee, copulation, copulator, copulin, getting any, getting enough, copulate with, Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 374a. Sexuality, Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 43. Junction

Hypernyms

act sexually

Hyponyms

fornicate, close one's eyes and think of England, creep, fuck around, get around, have an affair, lose one's virginity, procreate, prostitute oneself, pull a train, ride the cock carousel, screw around, smash and dash, starfuck, take it to the next level