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MISSIONARY POSITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A position for sexual intercourse; a man and woman lie facing each other with the man on top; so-called because missionaries thought it the proper position for primitive peoples
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("missionary position" is a kind of...):
attitude; position; posture (the arrangement of the body and its limbs)