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to go down on

to go down on

24 9.9
To use your mouth to touch another person's private parts
  • phrasal verb
  • Offensive
translation icon : hacer una felación a
  • But thank you so much for going down on me.
  • go down on a guy
  • go down on my boyfriend
  • go down on a girl

Would they go down on you in a theater?

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Examples

  • Are you going to go down on him?

    Alpha Dog (2006)

  • She'd never had a person go down on her, so I did, and she climaxed.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Would she go down on you in...

    Booksmart (2019)

  • Does he go down on you?

    Shame (2011)

  • You ought to go down on her.

    Scent of a Woman (1992)

  • I went down on him and got him off before three minutes had passed.

    Academic text (2007)

  • He went down on me, but not quite as well as you do.

    Blog text (4)

  • Jake, you're gonna go down on me, right?

    All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)

  • So after a few minutes of going down on him, he asks sleepily, "Hey, what are you doing?"

    Blog text (30)

  • I can't believe he actually went down on her in public.

Synonyms

to suck
vsto go down on
  • Offensive
234 9.9

To use the mouth to give sexual pleasure to another person

is a neutral phrase for performing oral sex without vulgar tone
to blow
vsto go down on
  • Offensive
165 9.9

To use your mouth to give someone sexual pleasure

is the neutral phrase for the same act without slang or vulgar tone

How Intimate

to have sex
  • NSFW
∞ 3.0
to go down on
  • Offensive
24 9.9
to make out
  • NSFW
130 8.1
to kiss
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

go down on infinitive
going down on present participle
goes down on third person singular
went down on past
gone down on past participle

Morphology

go + down + on

The literal components 'go' + 'down' + 'on' describe spatial motion, but the sexual sense 'to perform oral sex' is an idiomatic/slang extension not predictable from those meanings. A B1 learner who knows the individual words would not reliably infer this pragmatic sexual meaning without exposure, so it is opaque.

Etymology

The phrasal verb go down on may come from the simple image of go + down + on: someone moving lower toward their partner. That's why it means 'to perform oral sex on someone'.