noun
General Slang
shift
· noun · irish
A kiss — specifically a proper snog, tongues included.
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A kiss with tongues — what the English call a snog. Works as noun ('got the shift off her') or verb ('did you shift anyone last night?'). Ireland's national word for it.
“He was trying to shift her all night and she wasn't having it.”
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By extension, the person you shifted. 'Was that your shift from Saturday?' = the one you got off with.
“I bumped into me shift from the debs in Spar, fucking mortifying.”
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shift In A Sentence
He was trying to shift her all night and she wasn't having it.
I bumped into me shift from the debs in Spar, fucking mortifying.
Origin & Usage
Irish teenage slang of unclear origin, locked in by the disco and debs-ball generation. Synonymous with the school-disco circuit of the 80s and 90s but still going strong.
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