Meaning & use
booty bumping
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Meaning
noununcountableslangmedical
A slang term for taking a drug through the rectum instead of swallowing or smoking it.
Grammar: Not used with an or an: booty bumping is risky.
Patterns
- booty bumping of something
- warn about booty bumping
A health article warned teenagers about the dangers of booty bumping.
Doctors say booty bumping can injure the body and spread infection.
The harm-reduction guide explains why booty bumping is risky.
Common combinations
- risks of booty bumping
- The leaflet describes the risks of booty bumping.
- warn about booty bumping
- Nurses warn about booty bumping at festivals.
- dangers of booty bumping
- The dangers of booty bumping are rarely discussed.
Synonyms and how they differ
- rectal administration
- Rectal administration is the neutral medical phrase, while booty bumping is slang for doing so with recreational drugs.
Word family
- booty bump noun
- a single instance of the practice
- booty bump verb
- to take a drug in this way
Commonly confused: booty bumping or bumping?
booty bumping vs bumping
In other contexts bumping simply means knocking into something; booty bumping is a specific slang term and has no connection with that.
Practice
Which kind of text would most naturally contain the term booty bumping?
Choose one answer.
Booty bumping is slang about a risky drug practice, so it would appear in health or safety writing. The other texts have no reason to use it.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “booty bumping”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.