Mile High Club
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9.3
People who have had sex on an airplane during a flight
- noun
- NSFW
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Club de la Altura de una Milla
- She laughed when he suggested they should join the Mile High Club on their next trip.
- Join the Mile High Club
- member of the Mile High Club
Examples
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The Mile High Club
Blog text (1) -
Many people dream of joining the Mile High Club during their flights.
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Rumor has it that several celebrities are members of the Mile High Club.
Surface Forms
Mile High Club singular
Mile High Clubs plural
Morphology
While 'mile' + 'high' suggests altitude and 'club' suggests a group, nothing in the literal meanings signals sexual activity. The phrase is a culturally specific idiom referring to having sex on an aircraft, so its meaning is not predictable from the constituents and would not be reliably inferred by a B1 learner.
Etymology
Mile High Club creates a picture of a mile-high club, people together high in the sky on a plane. That's why it refers to people who 'had sex on a plane during a flight'.