Meaning & use

sexual napalm

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Slang for an intensely powerful and consuming sexual attraction or chemistry between two people.

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Friends joked that the couple's on-again, off-again romance was pure sexual napalm.

Reviewers described the leads' chemistry on screen as sexual napalm.

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The phrase borrows the destructive force of napalm to describe an attraction that feels overwhelming and hard to control.

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