horizontal mambo
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- noun
- NSFW
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horizontal mambo
- Did you hear about their horizontal mambo?
Examples
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Rumors spread quickly after the neighbors were caught in the middle of the horizontal mambo.
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He joked that they spent the whole weekend doing the horizontal mambo.
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Whenever the song played, they’d wink and make a joke about the horizontal mambo.
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They enjoyed a passionate horizontal mambo last night.
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They joked about their friends' attempts to find a partner for some horizontal mambo.
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After the party, they went back to her place for a bit of horizontal mambo.
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He was too shy to ask her if she was interested in some horizontal mambo.
Synonyms
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To have sex with someone
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A playful word people use for having sex
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A literary phrase meaning two people having sex together
A joking way to talk about sex between two people or close dancing
Having sex with another person
Playful sexual activity often mentioned as a joke
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
horizontal + mambo
The noun combines 'horizontal' (lying down) with 'mambo' (a dance), so the phrase evokes a metaphorical 'dance in a lying position' that plausibly hints at sexual activity. However, this is slangy, culture-dependent wordplay and not a conventional compositional meaning, so learners who only know the parts may not reliably infer the euphemistic sense without exposure.
Etymology
Horizontal mambo may come from a playful image: horizontal means lying down and mambo is a lively dance. One popular joke says it is like 'dancing' while lying down, so people use it as a funny way to say 'sexual intercourse'.