Citations:horizontal hula
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English citations of horizontal hula
Noun: "(slang, euphemistic) sexual intercourse"
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- 1990 — David Blum, "Laugh Track", New York, 20 August 1990:
- The only restriction is that he may not make me feel bad by using witty euphemisms throughout lunch, like "That was a tasty piece of cow flesh" or "I'm in the mood to do the horizontal hula."
- 1991 — Mark Thompson, Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice, Alyson Publications (1991), →ISBN, page 107:
- Sexual revolution uncloseted more than the horizontal hula.
- 1994 — Gini Hartzmark, Final Option, Arrow (1994), →ISBN, page 214:
- "They were doin' the old horizontal hula. You see stuff like that all the time. An old guy like Hexter discovers he can still get it up, and pretty soon he's believing that this young babe wants him for his wonderful self, not his money. What a sap."
- 1995 — Amy Linden, "Ebony Vibe Everlasting", Vibe, March 1995:
- E.v.e.'s lyrical fixation on the horizontal hula ain't the problem.
- 2000 — Vicki Lewis Thompson, Boone's Bounty, Harlequin Books (2000), →ISBN, page 92:
- […] the horizontal hula while he'd been crammed into a hard plastic booth trying to get some shut-eye.
- 2001 — Kinky Friedman, Steppin' on a Rainbow, Simon & Schuster (2002), →ISBN, page 21:
- "Let me think. Wait a minute. He did seem rather distracted, as I recall. The last thing I remember him saying was, 'I'd like to take some horizontal hula lessons from that dame coming out of Denny's by the Sea. […]
- 2001 — Paul Theroux, Hotel Honolulu, Mariner Books (2002), →ISBN, page 16:
- Buddy had found Zachary Scott an island girlfriend. "They did the horizontal hula."
- 2006 — Melodie Bowsher, My Lost and Found Life, Bloomsbury (2006), →ISBN, page 233:
- […] But when you're in love, you want to be with that person and talk to her, not just do the horizontal hula with her."
- 2006 — Sharon Krum, The Thing About Jane Spring, Plume (2006), →ISBN, page 69:
- A private dick who snapped photos of the lovers doing the horizontal hula.
- 2006 — K. J. Larsen, Liar, Liar, Poisoned Pen Press (2010), →ISBN, page 5:
- "Your wife made a mistake. A woman forgets things when her husband does the horizontal hula with somebody else."
- 2007 — Derek Swannson, Crash Gordon and the Mysteries of Kingsburg, Three Graces Press (2007), →ISBN, page 233:
- Thanks to the church lady, Gordon now gets to spend eternity bending over for Tabasco sauce enemas and being force-fed chocolate napalm pudding — all just because he fell in love with a girl and wanted to do the horizontal hula with her.
- 2009 — Dianne Castell, Hot and Irresistible, Brava Book (2009), →ISBN, page 59:
- "Yesterday I put on those high heels like you all said I should and ended up doing the horizontal hula with McCabe in the mortuary kitchen on the table."
- 2009 — Earlene Fowler, Love Mercy, Berkley Books (2009), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- She didn't know what they called it these days — hooking up? Doing the horizontal hula.
- 2009 — Allan Pease & Barbara Pease, Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love: Solving the Mystery of Attraction, Broadway (2009), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- So why is the older generation doing the horizontal hula like never before?
- 2009 — Joan Rivers (with Jerrilyn Farmer), Murder at the Academy Awards, Pocket Books (2009), →ISBN, page 56:
- "Halsey. Is she in rehab? Does she wear hair extensions? Is she still doing the horizontal hula with that fake Hispanic guy?"
- 2010 — Erin Downing, Kiss It, Simon Pulse (2010), →ISBN, page 58:
- "Hot beef injection," I beamed. "Horizontal hula. Mattress dancing. I could go on all day."