Netflix and chill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Netflix and chills
form: Netflixes and chills
form: Netflix and chilling
form: Netflixing and chilling
form: Netflix and chilled
form: Netflix and chilled
form: Netflixed and chilled
form: Netflixed and chilled
Etymology: From the idea of euphemistically suggesting watching the online streaming service Netflix, as an excuse to be together in private. The idiomatic meaning developed around 2014.
Senses: examples: text: I take my Netflix binging seriously. Why hook up when we could marathon "Bob’s Burgers?" If you invite me to "Netflix and chill," that’s exactly what I’m going to do. / Don’t try to talk to me; I’m trying to pay attention to the show. Stop trying to put your arm around me. And no, I don’t want to take off my shirt to "get more comfortable."
ref: 2015 September 17, “Chill on the “Netflix and chill" and just have sex”, in The Independent Florida Alligator:
text: 2017 Impact Wrestling July 13th episode, 1h30m, Grado (w/ Joseph Park) to Laurel Van Ness after her pinfall victory over Ava Storie before Kongo Kong comes out.
I would just like to ask if me and you could possibly one night get together, eat some food, get some drinks, watch a movie or two. Would that be something that interests you? Would you be up for that? Netflix and chill? I just need an answer. Would you go out on a date with me?
text: It all started when Smyth took his date to Nando’s, a Portuguese restaurant in Bristol, UK. Afterward, he took her back to his apartment, where they Netflixed and chilled.
ref: 2017 September 5, Christian Gollayan, “Woman ends Tinder date stuck in window trying to grab her own poop”, in New York Post:
text: Impulsive Sagittarius can also seem flaky to homebody Cancer. Likewise, Cancer can clash with extra-extroverted Leo—Cancer would rather Netflix and chill while Leo wants to hit up six different parties in one night. Exhausting!
ref: 2023 March 7, Jake Register, Marielle Marlys, Erika W. Smith, “Everything You Need to Know About Dating a Cancer Man”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Netflix, chill.
examples: text: If you haven't been living under a rock, you're well aware of "Netflix and Chill," which is the new hang out method. Contrary to prior belief, if invited to Netflix and chill, don't expect to spend a couple hours watching Netflix. It's actually the new version of "let's hook up."
ref: 2015 August 25, Ryan Santistevan, “10 movies to make your next "Netflix and Chill" session the best one yet”, in The State Press (Arizona State University):
text: I’ve canoodled on rooftops of shockingly expensive Capitol Hill apartments, Netflix-and-chilled in South Lake Union units with sweeping waterfront views, and languidly sipped merlot while my Amazonian inamorato responds to a high-priority event.
ref: 2016 March 11, McKenzie Templeton, “Navigating new Seattle, one Tinder date at a time”, in The Seattle Times:
text: “Hi Mum. Did u have a good weekend?”
“Your dad and I just netflixed and chilled.”
“Right. U kno that means having sex?”
“Yes ;-)”
ref: 2016, Your Mum, Text Fails From Mum, Bonnier Publishing, →ISBN, page 137:
text: Nowadays, Grammer and his wife spend their days “Netflix and chilling”—with an emphasis on the “chilling.”
ref: 2017 February 3, Nicole Sands, “Andy Grammer Abstained from Sex Until Marriage—But Now He Loves to 'Netflix and Chill'”, in PEOPLE:
text: 2017 August 12, Ross McG (Ross v Ross), "The 10 best films on Netflix UK right now if you want to Netflix and chill", Metro (UK).
You can watch the films in the list below before Netflix and chilling, or after, or during – sometimes it’s better to imagine your favourite movie star in your bed rather than facing the cold, hard reality – or even if you’re just thinking about Netflix/chilling.
synonyms: 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 engage in sexual activity, possibly while or after watching a movie or a TV series together.
Derived terms: and chill
Related terms: view someone's etchings