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do the deed

verb

Etymology

Earliest attested usage is from Middle English: 1340, Ayenbite of Inwyt "Ȝete þai ben al clene; Haue þai no dede y-done" ("Yet they are all clean; They have not had intercourse"); and in 1443, Reginald Pecock, The Rule of Christian Religion: "By force hath he..don that dede, That he hath reft hire of hire maydenhede." (By force he has done that deed, That he has deprived her of her virginity.)

Definitions

  1. To have sex.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to do a given deed.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA