Vocabulary about relationships, romance and love
Probably the most important aspect of our lives is love and our relationships with other people. So that’s why young people are often searching the internet for vocabulary about these topics.
Socializing, parties and forming relationships with other young people from different countries seems to be the most important thing. And therefore a good knowledge of correct English phrases and expressions is absolutely essential.
Better English conversation about intimate topics
This list will be your useful companion when you need to talk about relationships, love, romance or flirting. If you want to ask someone in English to go out with you or just want to have a flirting conversation, be sure to check out these phrases.
You can use them if:
1. you want to have a quality conversation about love and relationships
2. you like someone and want to date him/her
3. you want to understand romantic comedies 🙂
Since this topic is very wide, this list provides many different phrases and expressions about relationships, dating and love. Learning them will significantly improve your conversation skills and most of all, you will have better chance to find a boyfriend or a girlfriend…
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– Urban and street slang
LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS: (50 terms) | |
gorgeous | good looking person (usually woman) |
get in the sack | to have a sexual affair |
soul mate | person with strong emotional connection |
cheeseball lines | rather stupid or corny talk |
tone down | to make something more moderate |
long-distance relationship | relationship when partners are living far from each other |
hang up | to end a call |
get over | to recover from a difficult situation |
cranky | being easily irritated and angry |
cuddle | intimate hugging, touching |
freak out | to be excited, to lose control of emotions |
go along (with someone or something) | to follow, to cooperate |
weird out | to become nervous, to start panicking |
let the good times roll | to have a good time (usually sex) |
hunk | good looking male (slang) |
pop the question | when a man asks a woman to marry him |
screw around | to cheat a partner, to have sex outside relationship |
to ditch | to end a relationship |
break up | to end a relationship |
be crazy about (someone) | to be strongly in love |
to pigeonhole | to categorize people |
date | person you start seeing as a girlfriend or boyfriend |
say hi | form of greeting |
cheat on somebody | to be unfaithful, having another relationship |
go out | to meet somebody as a girlfriend or a boyfriend |
taken | someone who is not single |
loser | person who doesn't win (used in any situation) |
lose (one’s) mind | go crazy, to lose control of emotions |
get over (something) | overcome hard obstacles |
prenups | written agreement before marriage |
find (someone) attractive | to think that someone is attractive |
one-night stand | sexual relationship for one night |
push (someone) | to provoke |
lock (oneself) in | discontinue contacts with people around you |
break up | to end a relationship |
uptight | nervous |
backside | rear side of a human body that we sit on |
pull (oneself) together | regain control of emotions |
priss | overly nice person |
hang out | to spend time |
seeing somebody | to date somebody |
to dump (somebody) | to end a relationship with somebody |
to be stood up | when girlfriend or boyfriend does not come to a date |
hot girl | pretty and sexy girl |
stag | going solo to a party (without a partner) |
get back on one’s feet | regain control of one's life |
striking | very good looking |
manhood | qualities that men can be proud of |
storm out | to angrily leave a place |
repel | to cause others to avoid him/her, to drive away |