Will someone explain to an englishman what "making out " means in the usa.?

Question

I see these words often on Yahoo answers and I dont really understand what they mean. We dont use the phrase in England but I guess we probably have the same activities just called something else. Please be as specific as common decency allows.Thanks

Answer 1

Making out is an American slang phrase and usually serves as a colloquial term or euphemism for the act of two people engaging in prolonged kissing (known as "getting off" or "snogging" in the United Kingdom, "rummachen" in Germany, "enrollarse" in Spain,"fajar" in Mexico, "curtir com" in Portugal and "dar amasso" in Brazil) or sometimes, as two people engage in sexual activity, it is said that they are making out. Making out is usually done to express affection to a boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse, or to express sexual attraction to a prospective sexual partner. Making out usually consists mostly of French kissing, although this is not a requirement. An episode of making out can also be referred to as a make-out session.

Techniques

After a period of prolonged kissing, two people may choose a more sexual form of making out, known as necking. Necking, as the term implies, involves kissing and licking of the neck, often considered to be an erogenous zone, because of the relatively high sensitivity of the skin there. Necking is usually done one partner at a time, since a couple both kissing each others' necks is usually difficult or uncomfortable. Because one person is usually inactive during necking, that person can rest their head on the other's shoulder, if they wish to rest their neck. Giving or receiving a love-bite may be involved in the act of necking.

The couple may also continue to kiss various other body parts, though kissing on more sensitive and private body parts is usually less of a romantic act and more of an act done for sexual arousal. Sexualized touching of other sorts, such as groping or heavy petting may also commonly occur during making out. Although making out does not only exist as foreplay, it is sometimes understood as an impetus to more sexual acts.This can also be referred to as "Pulling" or "Snogging"

Other phrases related to making out

* Baseball euphemism: Reaching "first base," "second base," "third base," and "home run" or "scoring" is a euphemism or an innuendo for referring to the successive stages of an intimate encounter.
o First base is usually understood as making out, with second and third considered to be the touching of breasts (of a female partner) and fingering, respectively. (Due to the growing popularity of pre-coital oral sex, "third base" has recently been occasionally used to describe this act.) In this case, "making out" is used to mean foreplay, with orgasm as the home run or "scoring."
* "Frenching," as short for French kissing.
* "Lip-locking," as a couple engaged in making out looks to be locked at the lips.
* "Sucking face," as a couple engaged in making out looks as if they are sucking one another's faces. This can be used as a slightly derogatory term, usually to refer to a couple who are making out in full view of someone who would rather not witness it.
* "Pulling a Connery" Often used to describe the act of promiscuous kissing with foreign women.
* "Swapping spit," since a kisser can get his saliva in his/her partner's mouth. Again, this can be used derogatorily.
* "Lip wrestling," since French kissing causes lips to overlap.
* "Tonsil Hockey"
* "Tongue Wrestling," when the couple is enjoying it so much they will sometimes wrestle quite literally with their partner's tongue.
* "Pulling"; more common in the UK
* "Getting Off"; also common slang in the UK (Note that in North America, "getting off" refers to having an orgasm.)
* Variations on the Verb "to go"; In northern England and some parts of Ireland (Especially Ulster)it's common to say, "They went together." or "Did he go with her?" meaning they kissed, generally with tongues.
* "Trapping Off"; again, a UK phrase (esp. in the North)
* "Snogging"
* "Tongue Tango"
* "Mouth to mouth Mambo"
* "Tonsil Tennis"
* "Meeting" (As referred to in most of the Republic of Ireland and some parts of North Eastern England)
* "Smogging her bowl" (as referred to in the South Ulster region of Ireland)
* "Nipping" (as referred to in Scotland, especially Glasgow)
* "Scoring"
* "Googling her mouth hole"

Variation in age

The intensity and ramifications of making out can vary from person to person depending on their age and past sexual experiences. For instance, teenagers who are having their first experiences with sexual and intimate relationships often perceive making out as a serious act of intimacy. However, as knowledge and experience increase, the seriousness tends to decrease. Inexperienced teenagers sometimes play party games in which making out is the main activity, such as Seven Minutes in Heaven as an act of exploration. Teenagers are also known to have social gatherings in which making out, often with someone they are not formally romantically involved with, makes up the bulk of the activities. These gatherings are often referred to as "make-out parties". Sometimes this will only make up a section of a party, often referred to as the "make-out room."

Answer 2

It usually means a heavy petting session or even the full act if you date some-one and get chance to be alone. If you are young and single I would say that is what you'd be doing.
It's also the first question a friend will ask the next time you meet!
An American would ask Did You Make Out with him/her but every place has their own Phrase for it or numerous ones something as simple as Did you get it? Turns into 'Getting it On' I wont give a crude answer as you probably know more than I do.
Hope that's helpful enough.

Answer 3

America has been very selfless in much of her use of power. She has the highest rate of belief in God, and if I remember right, one of the highest rates of personal giving. It is not fair to put her down for disposing of the natives because right or wrong, this has been the norm throughout history. The fact that we look back with regret for such actions shows we are clearly different. However, unlike Central and South America, North America was actually sparsely populated, and most of the death was from unintentionally spreading diseases like smallpox. Don't get me wrong, our predecessors did some awful things (the trail of tears, Custer's Last Stand, the Alamo, and especially slavery come to mind) but America is not unique in having these kinds of things in her past. She is unique in trying to do right even at the coast of her own harm.

Answer 4

Making out means to kiss

Answer 5

Snogging

Answer 6

To me it means a session of "necking," that is kissing. However, it can also mean more than just kissing. I think it can also mean having full sexual knowledge of one another.
For example, we say someone "got made" meaning that they had sex.

Answer 7

It's heavy petting, tongue kissing rubbing hugging holding you like fore-play....you call it "copping off" right?
I am from america.
It is not having sex or making love!!!
That would be "hittin' it" "tappin that" tappin that as"

Answer 8

I am British ..and the word you are looking for is ..scoring with someone.. You are embarrassing the English ..I am glad you didn't say British..you can embarrass the English as much as you like

Answer 9

As I understand it,making out is basically foreplay.

Answer 10

i think making out is heavy petting. but they put baseball levels on it too first base, second base ect. i think full sex is a home run, or a touch down!

Answer 11

It just means copping off or getting off with someone.