booty call

• booty-call (verb only)

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

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booty call (plural booty calls)

1. (informal, slang) A telephone call made to request a sexual encounter.
2. (informal, slang) A sexual encounter arranged by telephone.
3. (informal, slang) The recipient of a telephone call requesting a sexual encounter.
4. (informal, 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."

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.