leap the broomstick

leap the broomstick
   obsolete
   to live together as a couple without marrying
   A variant of jump the broomstick and also as leap the besom. It applied to couples who were by choice cohabiting without being married, or to those without access to a priest:
    Leaping a broomstick was the deep country way of marriage. (B. Cornwell, 1993)

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

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