get one's oats

English

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Verb

get one's oats (third-person singular simple present gets one's oats, present participle getting one's oats, simple past got one's oats, past participle (UK) got one's oats or (US) gotten one's oats)

1. (informal) To have sexual intercourse.

   Probably he's in a bad mood because he didn't get his oats last night.

   • 1970, Paul McCartney (lyrics and music), “Two of Us”, in Let it Be, performed by The Beatles:

     “I Dig a Pygmy” by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids. Phase one, in which Doris gets her oats.

     (intro spoken by John Lennon)

Synonyms

• (to have sexual intercourse): do it, get one's end away, get one's leg over; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Related terms

• feel one's oats
• sow one's wild oats

Further reading

• “get one's oats v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present