mate with an animal
mate with
1. To copulate so as to produce children or offspring with. The female praying mantis is notorious for eating the head of its male mate after—or sometimes while—mating with him. A: "She's a nice girl and all, but I don't know if she's someone I'd want to mate with." B: "Ugh, can you please not refer to it as 'mating'?"
2. To pair an animal with a mate so that the two will copulate and produce offspring. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "mate" and "with." I'm been mating my English bulldog with a number of female dogs around the state.
See also: mate
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
mate with an animal
[for an animal] to copulate with its own kind. The gander mated with the goose in the barnyard. The coyote acted as if it wanted to mate with the dog.
See also: animal, mate
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- mate with
- old mate
- copulate
- copulate with
- copulate with (one)
- earth mother
- family jewels
- the family jewels
- fix (someone)
- fixed