Definition of Have sex

1. Verb. Have sexual intercourse with. "Sam cannot have sex Sue "; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"


Definition of Have sex

1. Verb. To take part in a sexual act. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Have Sex

have one's money's worth
have one's name on it
have one's name taken
have one's number on it
have one's wits about one
have one's work cut out for one
have other fish to fry
have reason
have second thoughts
have seen better days
have seen one's day
have serious designs
have someone's back
have someone's guts for garters
have someone's hide
have someone's number
have someone by the short hairs
have someone going
have someone on
have something to eat
have the best
have the biscuit
have the blues
have the floor
have the goods on

Literary usage of Have sex

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The War Within the War: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Eastern Congo by Joanne Csete, Juliane Kippenberg (2002)
"43 In other cases girls without money for school fees have sex with their teachers in order to stay in school, or employees have sex with their employers in ..."

2. More Than a Name: State-Sponsored Homophobia and Its Consequences in by Scott Long, A. Widney Brown, Gail Cooper (2003)
"Men who have sex with men, and women who have sex with women, often fear the social and legal consequences of seeking testing or treatment. ..."

3. Preventing Teen Pregnancy: Coordinating Comunity Efforts edited by Christopher Shays (1999)
"More than 73 percent of the students said that they would like to belong to a group that supported one another in waiting to have sex, at least until after ..."

4. Criminal Injustice: Violence Against Women in Brazil by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Dorothy Q. Thomas, Human Rights Watch (Organization (1991)
"He took her to nightclubs so that she could choose and seduce a stranger so that the three of them could have sex together. In one of several incidents ..."

5. No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons by Joanne Mariner (2001)
"H. If you are one of the inmates who force others to have sex consider this: 1. ... If a man wants to have sex with another man he is a homosexual. 5. ..."

6. Prison Conditions in the United Kingdom by Allyson Collins, Haywood Burns (1992)
"Prison monitoring groups have also criticized the government for not providing condoms for prisoners who may have sex in prison, for lack of AIDS ..."

7. Elements of English Grammar by George Pliny Brown, Charies De Garmo (1900)
"We see, therefore, that all objects can be separated into two classes, (1) those that have sex, and (2) those that have no sex; those that have sex are ..."

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