# Knock'in Boots Poll: Having Sex - so what do you call it?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 27, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957 "2003-02-27T19:39:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/1 "2003-02-27T19:39:10Z")

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I wonder how big the grand list will get?

Having Sex  
Knock’in Boots  
Making love  
Boing’in - Thanks **Qadg Top**  
Boink’in  
Anyone else…? So what do you and your SO call it?

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**Author:** ![MamaHen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@MamaHen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MamaHen)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/2 "2003-02-27T19:52:25Z")

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I have always enjoyed… Bumping Uglies. It just makes me tingle.

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**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/3 "2003-02-27T20:03:40Z")

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That’s not fair - i’m the second responder and someone still got in before me with my favourite expression. “Bumping uglies” has always been at the top of my list.

“Giving her the hot beef injection” was one we used a lot when i was younger.

A friend of mine, when he sees an attractive women, has a habit of nudging me (or any other guy he’s with) and saying “Shall we put her on the spit?”

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**Author:** ![Payne\_N.Diaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Payne\_N.Diaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payne_N.Diaz)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/4 "2003-02-27T20:05:31Z")

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the horizontal mambo

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**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/5 "2003-02-27T20:07:52Z")

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I’ve always wanted to call it “Making the Baby Jesus cry”, but I’m not quite sure that quite describes the moment.

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**Author:** ![X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbe5ce/32.png) [@X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X_Slayer_ALE)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/6 "2003-02-27T20:11:44Z")

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lessseee…  
Doin it  
making monkey love  
doin the ol in-out in-out  
screwing  
hide the weiner  
slip in the sausage  
makin sweet love  
and the age old favorite

Fucking

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**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/7 "2003-02-27T20:17:04Z")

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Nothing’s as romantic as ruttin’.

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**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/8 "2003-02-27T20:17:16Z")

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ahem:

My husband enjoys seducing me with his suave, intriguing offer of “takin’ a meat ride”

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**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/9 "2003-02-27T20:21:42Z")

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We don’t call it anything, but this strange 70’s music with screaming lead guitar keeps piping up when we get going…

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**Author:** ![Coda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Coda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coda)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/10 "2003-02-27T20:22:18Z")

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OMG!!! I can not stop laughing…  
**Ruttin’** BUHAAAAHAHAHAHAH!!!

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**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/11 "2003-02-27T20:24:54Z")

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I just call it fucking.

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**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/12 "2003-02-27T20:32:19Z")

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Nothing like taking her for a ride on the ol’ bone rollercoaster.  
Wooooooooooo.

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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/13 "2003-02-27T20:33:23Z")

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I call it Something Other People Do.

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**Author:** ![Dark\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@Dark\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Brown)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/14 "2003-02-27T20:40:47Z")

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how about:

laying pipe  
riding the baloney pony  
taking the log to the beaver  
humping  
doing the nasty  
playing ‘hide the pickle’  
checking the dipstick  
riding the banana boat to tuna town

theres more im sure.

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**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/15 "2003-02-27T21:00:14Z")

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playing Parcheesi

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**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/16 "2003-02-27T21:18:55Z")

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I usually default to “gettin’ freaky.”

Also, thanks to Smoove B, “sex you/me/he/she/it wild.”

Everything I know I learned from bad R&B songs.

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**Author:** ![Wartime\_Consigliori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@Wartime\_Consigliori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wartime_Consigliori)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/17 "2003-02-27T21:21:17Z")

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Play a game of “Hide the Salami”; or,

Playing the boneaphone (oral sex only)

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**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/18 "2003-02-27T21:22:46Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by ENugent \*  
> \*\*playing Parcheesi \*\*

Weird. This was a common euphemism in New Orleans when I was growing up, and I assumed it was just us, since it was kind of an in-joke.

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**Author:** ![Felonious\_Mink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Felonious\_Mink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Felonious_Mink)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/19 "2003-02-27T21:24:27Z")

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I have a friend who calls it “ziggy zaggy”. He worries me sometimes.

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**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knockin-boots-poll-having-sex-so-what-do-you-call-it/157957/20 "2003-02-27T21:28:13Z")

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A good friend of mine always referred to it as -

“Takin’ a ride on the Pee-Wee Express.”

Odd, considering how us men don’t like to cop to having a small penis (outside of anonymous message boards of course). But this particular friend was just one of those guys who had no fear and subsequently scored more than the rest of us put together. Because of his incredible track record, nobody ever game him shit about it.

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