"make out" origin?

[nq:1]What is the origin of the term "make out" (kissing, etc)?[/nq]
The phrase was old in the early Sixties. BTW, making out stops with kissing, involving nothing below the neck. "Etc." requires other terms.
Cece

[nq:2]What is the origin of the term "make out" (kissing, etc)?[/nq]
[nq:1]The phrase was old in the early Sixties. BTW, making out stops with kissing, involving nothing below the neck. "Etc." requires other terms.[/nq]
You better tell Merriam-Webster that they've got it wrong: they say it means "to engage in sexual intercourse"


Cheers, Harvey
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[nq:1]On 25 Jun 2007, Cece wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]The phrase was old in the early Sixties. BTW, making out stops with kissing, involving nothing below the neck. "Etc." requires other terms.[/nq]
[nq:1]You better tell Merriam-Webster that they've got it wrong: they say it means "to engage in sexual intercourse" [/nq]
Well, "making out" in the "early Sixties" was not engaging in sexual interc

[nq:2]On 25 Jun 2007, Cece wrote You better tell Merriam-Webster ... say it means "to engage in sexual intercourse" [/nq]
[nq:1]Well, "making out" in the "early Sixties" was not engaging in sexual intercourse. Fer **** sure. Cece has described it ... the necking part. M-W is providing a definition based on today's usage for the people who still use that term.[/nq]
Prezackly: that's

[nq:1]What is the origin of the term "make out" (kissing, etc)?[/nq]
I don't think anyone answered your question about origin. I can only guess that it was an intentionally vague term, although frankly I don't think that is the origin.
The others are right about the definition. You might find a few somewhere who use it to mean having sexual relations, but more likely these are people who m

[nq:2]What is the origin of the term "make out" (kissing, etc)?[/nq]
[nq:1]BTW, making out stops with kissing, involving nothing below the neck.[/nq]
Both necks or only one? ;-)
-Ramon

[nq:2]What is the origin of the term "make out" (kissing, etc)?[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't think anyone answered your question about origin. I can only guess that it was an intentionally vague term, ... relations, but more likely these are people who misunderstand what it means and use it incorrectly. It means to neck.[/nq]
"Misunderstand"? "Use it incorrectly"? It's a colloquial euphemism, for pi

[nq:2]I don't think anyone answered your question about origin. I ... it means and use it incorrectly. It means to neck.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Misunderstand"? "Use it incorrectly"? It's a colloquial euphemism, for pity's sake! It means whatever the user means by it.[/nq]
The rules for colloquial and euphemism are no different from the rules for other words.
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[nq:2]"Misunderstand"? "Use it incorrectly"? It's a colloquial euphemism, for pity's sake! It means whatever the user means by it.[/nq]
[nq:1]The rules for colloquial and euphemism are no different from the rules for other words.[/nq]
Rules? What rules? You do know what 'colloquial' means?

[nq:2]The rules for colloquial and euphemism are no different from the rules for other words.[/nq]
[nq:1]Rules? What rules? You do know what 'colloquial' means?[/nq]
Yes, and it has rules too. You can't make up your own colloquialisms and expect people to understand them, and you can't use existant colloquialism with your own new meanings and expect people to understand them either.
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