friendship with benefits

friendship with benefits

A friendship or acquaintance in which the partners engage in casual sexual activity but are not in a formal, committed relationship with one another. After two long, ultimately painful relationships, I'm just looking for friendship with benefits these days.
See also: benefit, friendship
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • friend with benefits
  • fuckbuddy
  • puppet
  • a notch in (someone's) bedpost
  • a notch on (someone's) bedpost
  • bedpost
  • be shacked up with (someone)
  • shack
References in periodicals archive
Coleen says It sounds to me like you're hoping your "friendship with benefits" is going to turn into something serious.
After a surprisingly smooth start, however, this unlikely bonding (which quickly evolves into a friendship with benefits) turns rocky.
Thanks to your article, I just ended a 1 1/2-year relationship (which turned out to be a friendship with benefits for him).