booty call

English

Alternative forms

• bootie call
• booty-call (verb only)

Etymology

Coined early 1990s, attributed to Bill Bellamy on Def Comedy Jam.

Pronunciation

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Noun

booty call (plural booty calls)

1. (slang) A telephone call made to request a sexual encounter.
2. (slang) A sexual encounter arranged by telephone.
3. (slang) The recipient of a telephone call requesting a sexual encounter.
4. (slang) An encounter for the purposes of casual sex.
   • 2016, Helen Callaghan, Dear Amy, →ISBN, page 25:

     You left me for another woman and now you're here on a booty call, that's what the matter is.

   • 2018, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 3717: Clinton's Mom Knows How To Party:

     "My mom gets 2am booty calls. My mom is cooler than me."

   • 2022, Kosoko Jackson, chapter 1, in A Dash of Salt and Pepper, Berkley, →ISBN, page 1:

     You up? In most circles, that text would read like a very ineloquently crafted booty call, one that absolutely should not warrant a response.

Translations

telephone call

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• Finnish: vonkauspuhelu

sexual encounter arranged by telephone

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• Finnish: pano (fi), seksitreffit pl

recipient of a telephone call

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• Finnish: panokaveri

encounter for the purposes of casual sex

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• Finnish: pano (fi), seksitreffit pl
• German: Sextreffen n
• Serbo-Croatian: poziv na seks m

Verb

booty call (third-person singular simple present booty calls, present participle booty calling, simple past and past participle booty called)

1. (transitive) To make a booty call.