English · Idiom Candidate

slap and tickle

Proposed by a contributor, not yet supported by evidence.

Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

amorous or flirtatious behavior

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

hành vi âu yếm hoặc tán tỉnh

Machine-translated — suggest a fix

Literally: physical actions of slapping and tickling

Where it’s used: Used Widespread English

Examples

That's not the place for entertainment — it's for your knitting and your eating and your bit of slap and tickle.

There's plenty of slap and tickle, nudge, nudge and wink, wink.

British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)

Sources & notes

Listed in Wiktionary’s “English idioms” category (retrieved 2026-07-29); definition pending editorial review. Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-31; pending editor spot-check.

Common questions

What does “slap and tickle” mean?

amorous or flirtatious behavior Literally: physical actions of slapping and tickling

Is “slap and tickle” formal or informal?

No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.

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