get one's oats
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]get one's oats (third-person singular simple present gets one's oats, present participle getting one's oats, simple past got one's oats, past participle (UK) got one's oats or (US) gotten one's oats)
- (informal) To have sexual intercourse.
- Probably he's in a bad mood because he didn't get his oats last night.
- 1970, Paul McCartney (lyrics and music), “Two of Us”, in Let it Be, performed by The Beatles:
- “I Dig a Pygmy” by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids. Phase one, in which Doris gets her oats.
Synonyms
[edit]- (to have sexual intercourse): do it, get one's end away, get one's leg over; see also Thesaurus:copulate
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Jonathon Green (2024) “get one's oats v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang