musical beds

musical beds

1. The act or instance of leaving one's own bed to go sleep beside one's child, or vice-versa, because the child needs one's company to sleep soundly. A reference to the children's game "musical chairs." We fell into some bad habits when our daughter was about a year old, and we've been playing musical beds with her almost every night for the past three years as a result. Any parent out there knows the sleepy resignation of having to play musical beds at 4 o'clock in the morning.
2. The act or instance of having sex with multiple partners, especially in a short space of time. A reference to the children's game "musical chairs." It seemed like everyone in the dorm rooms was playing musical beds—promiscuity and experimentation was just the name of the game in college.
See also: bed, musical
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

musical beds

n. acts of sexual promiscuity; sleeping with many people. (From the name of the game musical chairs.) Mary has been playing musical beds for about a year.
See also: bed, musical
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • boomerang child
  • love child
  • babysit for
  • babysit for (someone)
  • fruit of (one's) loins
  • loin
  • expecting a child
  • problem child
  • act (one's) age
  • act your age
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A seriously talented cast has been asked to act like cartoon characters in this tale of desperation, mutual suspicion and vigorous musical beds, all in the name of laughs that only sporadically ensue.
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