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单词 sex call
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sex call
sex call n. (a) Zoology a vocal call used for attracting a mate or initiating mating; (in extended use) any other signal having such a function; (b) a sexually explicit telephone call, spec. one made for the purpose of sexual gratification (cf. phone sex n. at phone n.2 Compounds 2).
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1901 Lancet 5 Jan. 50/2 Certain lizards of the South African veldt, the so-called ‘clucking sand lizards’ do, as their name suggests, utter a ‘cluck’, which in their case is probably a sex-call.
1927 New Internat. Encycl.: Suppl. II. 1498/1 This light in the firefly is used as a sex call.
1951 R. Rugh Frog iii. 41 Amplexus is achieved as the females reach the ponds where the males are emitting their sex calls.
1976 M. Wilding Scenic Drive 84 I've put a woman's name in the phone book so I get the sex calls. Then I can tape them.
1976 Family Health June 25/3 The problem has been to find a way to isolate and identify the chemical ‘sex call’ of each species.
1995 Mammalian Species No. 488. 5/1 Captive [civet] females often emit characteristic sex calls, to which the male responds with a contact call.
2007 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 14 July (Mag.) w14 Belle takes sex calls while watching TV and Adam lives more in his computer than the real world.
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