| couple | | |
| n. (group) | 1. couple, duet, duo, twosome | a pair who associate with one another.; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome" |
| ~ pair | two people considered as a unit. |
| ~ same-sex marriage | two people of the same sex who live together as a family.; "the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated" |
| n. (group) | 2. couple, match, mates | a pair of people who live together.; "a married couple from Chicago" |
| ~ family unit, family | primary social group; parents and children.; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" |
| ~ power couple | a couple both of whom have high-powered careers or are politically influential. |
| ~ dink | a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids). |
| n. (quantity) | 3. couple | a small indefinite number.; "he's coming for a couple of days" |
| ~ small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude. |
| n. (quantity) | 4. brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke | two items of the same kind. |
| ~ fellow, mate | one of a pair.; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown" |
| ~ 2, ii, two, deuce | the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number. |
| ~ doubleton | (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player. |
| n. (object) | 5. couple | (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines. |
| ~ natural philosophy, physics | the science of matter and energy and their interactions.; "his favorite subject was physics" |
| ~ dipole | a pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance. |
| ~ building block, unit | a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else.; "units of nucleic acids" |
| ~ moment of a couple | given two equal and opposite forces, the product of the force and the distance between them. |
| v. (contact) | 6. couple, match, mate, pair, twin | bring two objects, ideas, or people together.; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project" |
| ~ match | give or join in marriage. |
| ~ mismate | provide with an unsuitable mate. |
| ~ mismatch | match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together. |
| ~ bring together, join | cause to become joined or linked.; "join these two parts so that they fit together" |
| v. (contact) | 7. couple, couple on, couple up | link together.; "can we couple these proposals?" |
| ~ attach | cause to be attached. |
| v. (social) | 8. couple, pair, pair off, partner off | form a pair or pairs.; "The two old friends paired off" |
| ~ unite, unify | act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief. |
| v. (contact) | 9. copulate, couple, mate, pair | engage in sexual intercourse.; "Birds mate in the Spring" |
| ~ nick | mate successfully; of livestock. |
| ~ conjoin, join | make contact or come together.; "The two roads join here" |
| ~ be intimate, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, lie with, make love, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with, hump, jazz, bed, love, bang, make out, know | have sexual intercourse with.; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" |
| ~ tread | mate with.; "male birds tread the females" |
| ~ service, serve | mate with.; "male animals serve the females for breeding purposes" |
| ~ deflower, ruin | deprive of virginity.; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village" |
| ~ mount, ride | copulate with.; "The bull was riding the cow" |
| ~ breed, cover | copulate with a female, used especially of horses.; "The horse covers the mare" |
| ~ bugger, sodomise, sodomize | practice anal sex upon. |
| ~ sodomise, sodomize | copulate with an animal. |
| smack | | |
| n. (event) | 1. slap, smack | a blow from a flat object (as an open hand). |
| ~ blow, bump | an impact (as from a collision).; "the bump threw him off the bicycle" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang | the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth. |
| ~ gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensation | the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus.; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste" |
| ~ lemon | a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons. |
| ~ vanilla | a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. smack | a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast. |
| ~ sailing ship, sailing vessel | a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. big h, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, smack, thunder | street names for heroin. |
| ~ diacetylmorphine, heroin | a narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush. |
| ~ street name | slang for something (especially for an illegal drug).; "`smack' is a street name for heroin" |
| n. (act) | 5. smack, smooch | an enthusiastic kiss. |
| ~ buss, kiss, osculation | the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof). |
| ~ smacker | a loud kiss. |
| n. (act) | 6. slap, smack, smacking | the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand. |
| ~ spank | a slap with the flat of the hand. |
| ~ blow | a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon.; "a blow on the head" |
| v. (contact) | 7. smack, thwack | deliver a hard blow to.; "The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved" |
| ~ hit | deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument.; "He hit her hard in the face" |
| v. (perception) | 8. reek, smack, smell | have an element suggestive (of something).; "his speeches smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism" |
| ~ paint a picture, evoke, suggest | call to mind.; "this remark evoked sadness" |
| v. (perception) | 9. smack, taste | have a distinctive or characteristic taste.; "This tastes of nutmeg" |
| ~ savour, taste, savor | have flavor; taste of something. |
| v. (contact) | 10. peck, smack | kiss lightly. |
| ~ buss, kiss, snog, osculate | touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc..; "The newly married couple kissed"; "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room" |
| v. (consumption) | 11. smack | press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating. |
| ~ let loose, let out, utter, emit | express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words).; "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand" |
| adv. | 12. bang, bolt, slap, slapdash, smack | directly.; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
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