piece of tail
- noun
- Offensive
:
pedazo de carne
- She disliked being treated like just a piece of tail instead of a real person.
Examples
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Movies from that era often objectified women as little more than a piece of tail.
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He bragged to his friends about getting a piece of tail last night.
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He just wants a piece of tail for the night.
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Many people view dating as just getting a piece of tail.
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Movies from that era often objectified women as little more than a piece of tail.
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She disliked being treated like just a piece of tail instead of a real person.
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He bragged to his friends about getting a piece of tail last night.
Synonyms
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9.9
A person seen only as someone to have sex with, not as a whole person
Surface Forms
Morphology
piece + of + tail
The sense 'a person regarded only as a sexual partner' cannot be derived from the literal constituents 'piece' (a portion) and 'tail' (an animal appendage) without knowledge of the vulgar slang sense of 'tail.' This is a culture- and register-specific slang idiom whose meaning is not predictable from standard word meanings, so a B1 learner who only knows the literal words would not reliably infer the idiomatic sense.
Etymology
Piece of tail may come from comparing a person to an animal's tail — a small part taken for physical pleasure. That's why the phrase came to mean treating someone only as a 'sexual partner' or an 'object'.