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The Language of Love, Lust, Sex
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turn on:
1. To excite or arouse someone sexually, based on the switching on (and off) of an electrical appliance such as for a light .
SYNONYMS: push someone's button(s); ring somepne's bells; ring-someone's-chimes .
SEE ALSO: turn-someone-on . QUOTE: Magenta/Frank (Rutger Hauer) to Ivory/Tracy (Mimi Rogers) in Deadlock (1991): 'You couldn't turn me on if I had a switch .'
2. A turn-on , something that arouses sexual-desire . ' That crooked nose of yours is such a turn-on .' QUOTE: Gus/Augusta Mally (Sondra Locke) to Ben Shockley (Clint Eastwood) in The Gauntlet (1977): 'You know every woman has her thing about men. Something that turns her on? With me it's hands, strong hands, like yours .'
3. A sexual or emotional stimulant.
See Also: pull a trick, intermediate sex, turn off, turn a date, advanced in years, anal fissure, break luck, got something, Are you red sails in the sunset?, 5-alpha-reductase, perpetual emotion, turn a trick, turn on, turn (someone's) head, ring someone's chimes, ring someone's bell, Circe, visible panty line, dog's rig, give someone the works, breaking luck, chain sex, hack, hackney, hair court, 33, 78, a bit on the Wilde side, boiled frog principle, seventy-eight, slip into, take a turn in the Hair Court, talk dirty, talk trash, talking dirty, thirty-three, triangle, turnover, twirl the pearls, invert, iron, jumbucks,
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