give head

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

give head (third-person singular simple present gives head, present participle giving head, simple past gave head, past participle given head)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic, slang, vulgar) To perform oral sex on another person. [from 1950s]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:perform oral sex

   Hyponym: fellate

   • 1972, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer:

     But she never lost her head / Even when she was giving head

   • 1974, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “Chelsea Hotel No. 2”, in New Skin for the Old Ceremony:

     You were talking so brave and so sweet / Givin' me head on the unmade bed / While the limousines wait in the street

   • 1986, Tim Kazurinsky, Denise DeClue, About Last Night, spoken by Bernie (Jim Belushi):

     Ah, what the fuck, I only saw her for a minute. First impressions of this kind can often be misleading. Does she give head?

Translations

slang: to perform oral sex on another person

• Armenian: ծծել (hy) (ccel), մինետ անել (minet anel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 口交 (zh) (kǒujiāo), 吹簫／吹箫 (zh) (chuīxiāo)

• Czech: kouřit (cs)
• Danish: sutte af
• Finnish: ottaa suihin (fi), antaa päätä
• French: tailler une pipe (fr)
• German: jemandem einen blasen (de), Kopf geben (immigrant slang, not as common as in English)
• Hungarian: leszop (hu)
• Italian: spompinare (it)
• Japanese: フェラをやる (ja) (fera o yaru)
• Polish: robić loda (pl)
• Portuguese: pagar boquete
• Romanian: da muie
• Russian: соса́ть (ru) impf (sosátʹ), отса́сывать (ru) impf (otsásyvatʹ), отсоса́ть (ru) pf (otsosátʹ), соса́ть хуй impf (sosátʹ xuj), отсоса́ть хуй pf (otsosátʹ xuj) (vulgar), брать в рот impf (bratʹ v rot) / взять в рот pf (vzjatʹ v rot) (slightly vulgar)
• Spanish: hacer una mamada
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sakso çekmek

See also

• give someone his head