good friend(s)

good friend(s)
   having an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship
   A journalistic evasion when reporting such a condition might be considered defamatory:
    ... he mustn't say good friends, that was always taken as a euphemism for extreme intimacy. (Price, 1974)
   See also friend.

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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