- sleep with
- to copulate withPerhaps the commonest use, normally of extramarital copulation by either sex, or both, and now standard English:One couldn't accept a fur coat without sleeping with a man. (G. Greene, 1932)A sleeping dictionary is a native-speaking mistress from whom you hope to learn the language:East African (European) officers as a whole maintained a veiy much stricter code in the matter of sleeping with African women... sometimes referred to as 'sleeping dictionaries', from their obvious advantages as language instructors. (C. Allen, 1975)A sleeping partner, with whom you regularly copulate, puns on the part-owner who plays no active part in the running of the business:... the services of a Somali girl-friend or sleeping partner, (ibid.)Also rarely as sleepy time girl, who can be a mistress or a prostitute:Seems like the bint was one of his sleepy time girls. (Chandler, 1953)
How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. R. W. Holder. 2014.