threesome
nounUK /ˈθɹiː.səm/ · US /ˈθɹi.səm/
Etymology From three + -some.
1
A group of three people or things.
2
An instance of sexual activity involving three people.
- Threesomes are huge right now. They're the blow job of the '90s.1998 July 26, Jenny Bicks, “Three's a Crowd”, in Sex and the City, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Samantha:
- ‘Tell me everything,’ she said to Losse, and when she’d heard everything, got the colleague who kept suggesting a threesome discreetly demoted.2013, Joanna Biggs, “Tell me everything”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 7:
2 more examples
- Being polyamorous isn't inherently wrong. Neither is desiring threesomes or kinky sex.2016 April 3, Zachary Zane, “Where Do "Messy Bisexuals" Fit Into the Bi+ Community?”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2022:
- That’s a threesome joke about her fucking children! It was in the first season and they gave her another one!2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Charter Schools”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 22, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
- Derived terms
- devil's threesome, threesomeness