coupling

Meanings

Plural: couplings

Noun

• a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
• a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects
• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
  • "the casual couplings of adolescents"
• The act of joining together to form a couple.
• A device that couples two things together.
• The degree of reliance between two or more software modules.
• A connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them.
• The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other
• An act of sexual intercourse.
• A link between the performance of an action and the location where that action occurs or the method used to perform that action.

Verb

• bring two objects, ideas, or people together
• link together
• form a pair or pairs
• engage in sexual intercourse
• present participle and gerund of couple

Synonyms

action, aphrodisia, ass, bang, barney-mugging, beef injection, bonking, boom-boom, carnal knowledge, chesterfield rugby, coition, coitus, commerce, commixtion, congress, conjugation, conjunction, connection, consummation, conversation, copulate, copulation, couple, couple on, couple up, coupler, coupling, cuntfuck, dependency, fooling about, fooling around, frig, fucking, fucky-fucky, funny business, hanky-panky, horizontal dancing, horizontal hula, horizontal jogging, horizontal mambo, horizontal refreshments, hot beef injection, how's your father, hump, humpa humpa, intercourse, intimacy, intimate relations, intromission, jig-jig, jiggery-pokery, jiggy-jiggy, joining, lay, legover, love, lovemaking, lustmaking, making whoopee, marital embrace, match, mate, mating, meat injection, monkey business, mounting, Netflix and chill, nookie, old hat, pair, pair off, pairing, pareunia, partner off, penetration, physical love, pipe, playing around, plough, plow, poon, poontang, punani, pussy, relations, ride, roll in the hay, root, rumpo, rumpy-pumpy, screw, screwing, seeing-to, sex, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, sexual union, sexy time, sexy times, shag, skin, snu snu, swiving, tang, the beast with two backs, the birds and the bees, trim, twin, Ugandan affairs, Ugandan discussions, union, yoke

Antonyms

uncouple

Related Words

decoupling