Because, if it is, I’ve been using the phrase WAY wrong.
I always thought the phrase meant a lazy day spent by yourself or cuddled up next to your SO watching bad movies.
But according to a couple of memes I’ve stumbled across, it’s just code speak for sex.
That is what the kids are calling it these days, at least according to my kiddish sources.
Yes, it means come over have sex. A movie might be involved as a pretense 
Yep. Netflix as background noise basically.
And really, isn’t it much nicer than ‘Booty Call’?
Same as “Hey, wanna come over to my place and watch a movie?”
Yep, it’s totally code speak for sex, and you have totally been using it way wrong. I’m mortified on your behalf.
So… I’ve officially become that old man that doesn’t get what the kids are talking about these days.
Yes, it means sex. Many older people, including advertisers, seem unaware of the true meaning.
Funny story: an acquaintance of mine opened a restaurant locally here two or three years ago. This past summer he was selected to be interviewed for one of the local AM radio station’s “success stories” segments they do every week. Well, my buddy had opened this restaurant with a couple of his friends, all of whom contributed a few of their favorite home recipes. So my buddy decided to bring them on the show as well.
During the interview (which was being aired live) the host asked how this whole concept for a restaurant began. My buddy says “well, Jim and Bob would come over to my place a couple nights a week, we’d all hang out and Neflix and chill. Of course, after a couple hours of that we’d all be hungry so we’d head to the kitchen and start whipping up whatever we were in the mood for.” Of course, he meant “we sit around drinking beer while bingewatching sitcoms until we got the munchies.” The host (after the show) told him that what the entire county heard was “we get together for a gay group sex and fuck until we’re in the mood for fried chicken.”
He was not happy.
So yes. It’s a euphemism for sex.
It’s easier if you just start with the assumption that everything is about sex.
Any hilariously bad stories about when you’ve used it incorrectly?
How long has this been a thing? Less than, say, 2-3 years, right?
I mean as a thing “everybody knows” with the acknowledgement that the avant-garde cool kids might’ve been saying/texting it in 2013 or so. First time running across this expression has been in this thread. Guess I’m long past moving in those circles.
No, but I’ve come close. Sad part is that literal “Netflix and chill” is often what I’d really like to do someone, but I have to say it in some awkward permutation or else they think I’m asking if they want to come over and do the horizontal mambo.
It was a popular euphemism for sex three years ago. It still is, I guess, but it can also be used ironically. Or even played straight. Probably a lot like “want to come up for coffee?”. Sometimes it’s really coffee. Sometimes it’s sex. Sometimes it’s a joke, like on Seinfeld. “No, thanks, I can’t drink coffee late at night. It keeps me up.”
I think I’ve only used the term once, randomly using the words “chill” and Netflix" in the same sentence - I assembled the words differently and I think it was clear I wasn’t using the euphemism. Still, though, the odd pause it got inspired me to look up the term, which I’d never heard before, and I was mortified on my own behalf. I’ve avoid the term ever since.
“Baby, it’s cold outside”
Well, there have been a couple of times coworkers have asked me what my plans are for the weekend and I’ve casually told them I’m just gonna “Netflix and Chill”.
Then there was the time I posted a pic on FB of me and my (former) GF on the couch which I captioned “Netflix and Chill”.
Lol. Got a lot of thumbs up on that one if I remember correctly.
The venerable “come up and look at my etchings” springs to mind.
Yeah, I’ve always taken it in that connotation, but it looks like it’s much more a direct euphemism. To me “wanna come over to my place and watch a movie,” while generally did hint at the strong possibility of hanky panky, it never – at least to me – was a direct euphemism for “come over and let’s have sex,” which is what “Netflix and chill” seems to mean these days, according to internet commentators (at 42 and married, I’m too old/and or out of the game to know first hand definitively what the phrase means.)