tonsil hockey
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈtɒnsl ˈhɒki/
- NSFW
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beso francés
- Vickie wonders if AJ will deny playing tonsil hockey with Cena in the ring.
- play tonsil hockey
Examples
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Long before I refined my own tonsil hockey technique, I was struck by the frozen-faced fakeness of black-and-white movie make-outs.
Blog text (13) -
Whispers of their steamy tonsil hockey session echoed through the house as friends teased them.
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Tom's tongue was free of the rivers of saliva that accompanied Nick's rare attempts at tonsil hockey.
Fiction book (2000) -
They shared a passionate moment while playing tonsil hockey in the backseat of the car.
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After a romantic dinner, they ended the night with some playful tonsil hockey on the balcony.
Synonyms
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9.9
Kissing someone passionately with the tongue for a long time
Surface Forms
Morphology
tonsil + hockey
The compound pairs a mouth-related body part ('tonsil') with a sport ('hockey'), creating a playful metaphor of a ‘game’ involving the mouth; a learner who knows both words could plausibly infer it refers to some kind of kissing or mouth activity. However, the exact sense 'French kissing' and the slangy, culture-specific use are non-literal and not fully predictable from the parts, so it is only partially transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
The slang tonsil hockey comes from a funny picture: tonsil points to the throat and hockey suggests a rough, fast game, so you imagine mouths and tongues bumping like players. That's why it means 'French kissing' or 'making out'.