do it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does it
form: doing it
form: did it
form: done it
Senses: examples: text: A green shirt with orange slacks really doesn't do it for me, I’m afraid.
synonyms: fit the bill
cut it
glosses: To be appealing or suitable.
examples: text: He did it this time!
text: She's really done it now!
text: "Now you've done it, Chuck," the Colonel groaned. "Now you've done it! I brought you down here to teach my boys how to ride, not to kill them — this is terrible!"
ref: 1953 November, Herbert Farris, Boys' Life, Boy Scouts of America, page 38:
text: The man glared at her and said, "Now you've done it. Now you've done it. You've made me mad. If you don't put that back, you will make me even madder.
ref: 1986, Rita-Lou Clarke, Pastoral Care of Battered Women, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 50:
text: Sally: Oh, stop it! I never heard of anything so daft in my life. Mrs Jike: Eh, what? Now you've done it! The spirits have all gone away.
ref: 2010, Maggie Barbara Gale, John F. Deeney, Dan Rebellato, The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook: From Modernism to Contemporary Performance, Routledge, →ISBN, page 375:
text: Stephen drew in a shaky breath. Now you've done it, he said to himself. There'll be no way out now. The old man will get his claws into you and you'll be hooked for life, like poor old Hilary.
ref: 2012, Lilian Harry, Snowfall in Burracombe, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: To do something exceptionally foolish or unacceptable.
raw_tags: used in the past tense
examples: text: He was upstairs doing it with her.
text: And that's why birds do it, bees do it / Even educated fleas do it
ref: 1928, Cole Porter, “Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love”:
text: Why don't we do it in the road / No one will be watching us
ref: 1968, Lennon–McCartney, “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?”, in The Beatles (The White Album), performed by The Beatles:
text: Have you ever done it in an elevator?
ref: 1987, James Dearden, Fatal Attraction, spoken by Alex Forrest (Glenn Close):
text: The king of Los Angeles / Bought himself a teddy bear / And the queen became shameless / She did it with a chair
ref: 1988, “Rise and Fall”, in Michael Weikath (lyrics), Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II, performed by Helloween:
text: Speaking of golden numbers, a Wilkes University study might've found the optimum one as it relates to sex frequency and its effect on the human immune system: once or twice a week. Researchers discovered that college students who Did It that much had higher levels of a certain antibody that helps fight off colds and the flu.
ref: 2017 September 2, Chelsea Peng, “5 *Scientific* Reasons to Have More Sex”, in Marie Claire:
synonyms: word: bang
word: get it on
word: have sex
word: approach
word: cohabit
word: company
word: copulate
word: couple
word: engage in sex
word: exchange flesh
word: have intimate relations
word: have marital relations
word: have sex
word: have sexual relations
word: intercourse
word: know
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: make love
word: mate
word: share a bed
word: sleep together
word: strain
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beat
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: bop
word: bounce
word: breed
word: bump nasties
word: bump uglies
word: catch a dick
word: dance
word: discuss Uganda
word: dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
word: do it
word: do the deed
word: do the nasty
word: eff
word: engender
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get busy
word: get down
word: get freaky
word: get it
word: get it on
word: get jiggy
word: get laid
word: get lucky
word: get one's dick wet
word: get one's end away
word: get one's freak on
word: get one's groove on
word: get one's leg over
word: get one's oats
word: get physical
word: get some
word: get the dirty water off one's chest
word: graft the forked tree
word: go all the way
word: haul one's ashes
word: have it away
word: have it off
word: hide the salami
word: hide the sausage
word: hide the wienie
word: hike the Appalachian Trail
word: hook up
word: hump
word: jig-jig
word: knock boots
word: lay pipe
word: lay the pipe
word: make it
word: make out
word: make the beast with two backs
word: make whoopee
word: meddle
word: ming
word: Netflix and chill
word: penetrate
word: pipe
word: pipe down
word: play
word: play hide the sausage
word: pound
word: rail
word: ride
word: rock and roll
word: roger
word: roll around
word: root
word: screw
word: see someone's etchings
word: sex
word: shag
word: shelve
word: show someone one's etchings
word: slap bellies
word: stick
word: tumble
glosses: To have sex; to make it.
examples: text: I'll never do it on a Christmas tree / A Christmas tree is safe from me.
ref: 1991, “I'll Never Do It on a Christmas Tree”, in David Newman (lyrics), Rover Dangerfield, performed by Rover Dangerfield:
synonyms: word: do business
word: pass water
word: break the seal
word: hit the head
word: micturate
word: pass water
word: pee
word: piddle
word: piss
word: slash
word: take a leak
word: take a piss
word: take a whiz
word: urinate
word: void
word: wee
word: wee wee
word: widdle
word: whiz
glosses: To urinate.
examples: text: You did it! And in record time! Congratulations!
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, it.
Related terms: that does it