petting
Related to petting: Heavy petting
heavy petting
Sexual touching; foreplay. The term often implies that the activity is not followed with sex. You can be sure there's a lot of heavy petting going on under those bleachers.
See also: heavy, petting
petting pantry
slang A movie theater. A: "You're just 15 years old—there's no way I'm letting you go off to a petting pantry with some boy!" B: "But Mom, we're just friends going to a movie together—it's really not a big deal."
See also: petting
petting party
dated Social gatherings in which couples engaged in amorous kissing, caressing, and fondling. I was shocked to learn that my grandmother—one of the most prude, conservative women in my life—used to go around to petting parties back in the 1920s.
See also: party, petting
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
petting-party
n. a session of kissing and caressing. I just want to watch the movie. I didn’t come here for some teenage petting-party!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- heavy petting
- petting pantry
- a sugar daddy
- nose around for (someone or something)
- expedition
- fishing expedition
- a fishing expedition
- biggest frog in the puddle
- the biggest frog in the puddle
- the biggest toad in the puddle