friends with benefits
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- noun
- NSFW
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amigos con derechos
- Many college students enter into friends with benefits arrangements to avoid the complications of dating.
- the whole friends with benefits
- friends with benefits thing
Well, if you must know, we are friends with benefits, if you know what I mean.
- Well, if you must know, we are friends with benefits, if you know what I mean.
- I can't have like friends with benefits.
- Just as an avoidant has less number of orgasms in a friends with benefits scenario.
- You know, a great many people are having these one night stands and friends with benefits and living together before they marry.
- Now she did also caveat this by saying I am coming off the back of two years in a friends with benefits situation that I don't want to repeat.
- So once I acknowledge to myself that I actually was not capable of, of friends with benefits, boy did my dating life get clear.
- You're so right then you weren't friends with benefits, you were just booty calls someone else said.
- This says friends with benefits and there's a card that says my name on it.
Examples
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I don't understand how you can have friends with benefits and have a girlfriend.
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They decided to keep their relationship casual and become friends with benefits.
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Well, if you must know, we are friends with benefits, if you know what I mean.
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Would you be open to a friends with benefits situation?
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Will my "friends with benefits" ever become something more?
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You know, a great many people are having these one night stands and friends with benefits and living together before they marry.
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Your friends with benefits arrangement is going to harm you emotionally.
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You seem to dislike something about the current friends-with-benefits situation.
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We used to date, but he says he doesn't want to see anyone romantically. Could he want me later on if I continue being friends with benefits and play it cool?
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Now she did also caveat this by saying I am coming off the back of two years in a friends with benefits situation that I don't want to repeat.
Synonyms
Two friends who have sex but are not a romantic couple
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The idiomatic meaning — two friends who have a sexual relationship without a romantic partnership — is not derivable from the literal constituents 'friend' + 'with' + 'benefit(s)', since 'benefit' normally means an advantage rather than a sexual liaison. This is a colloquial, culture-specific usage whose sexual connotation is unpredictable for a B1 learner even if they know the component words, so it should be treated as opaque.
Etymology
Friends with benefits comes from the simple idea of two friends who share the benefits, a polite way to say sex, without becoming a couple. That's why it means 'two friends who have a sexual relationship but are not in a romantic partnership'.