Horndog

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person (particularly a man) who is fixated on sex. US, slang

    "In addition, lest we forget, Clinton’s reputation as the world’s biggest horndog was by this time well known to all of us."

Example

More examples

"In addition, lest we forget, Clinton’s reputation as the world’s biggest horndog was by this time well known to all of us."

Etymology

From the sexual sense of horn (late 18c. slang expression to have the horn, from which came horny) + dog (“sexually aggressive man”).

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