"A friend of mine's dad thought 'reacharound' meant patting his back during a handshake and used it in work e-mails"

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Michael Hobbes @RottenInDenm... A friend of mine's dad thought "reacharound" meant patting his back during a handshake and used to use it in work e-mails all the time. "The deal's about to close, I need you to give me reacharound on this." Luiseach Ni Nia @Luiseach I just yelped loud enough to startle the bunny K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen My wife just said "bukkake" in front of the kids, to my shock. She then admitted that she didn't know what it meant and thought it meant like bullshit or something fake and she'd "said it in meetings." I made her Google it and now she's having a panic attack. PM - - Twitter for iPhone 338 1.825 194k
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July 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM

[Tom Dyer]

1. Hilarious.

[Marthe48]

2. Suddenly sadder but wiser

[2MuchNoise]

3. Well, I had to google both and now I can't stop laughing.

[Aristus]

4. "...HR is on the line for you. Says it can't wait..."

[LudwigPastorius]

5. Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey introduced me to that term.

Apparently at the time this scene was filmed, Stanley Kubrick didn't know what it meant either.

[Doctoris Extincti]

6. ¿ As this clip-explicitly mentions the lack of courtesy-would seem to be precise and knowing use of the term ?

Had to lookup both these words. Rewarding in a dark sort of way and terribly funny, as OP intended, with people's unknowing use of them

Right up there with rock-n-roll which originally was a "...vernacular euphemism for '...sexual intercourse'...at least since the 1930s"

https://www.etymonline.com/word/rock%20and%20roll

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. 'Sixty Minute Man' by the Dominoes

made that pretty clear back in 1951.

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[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Nah, he knew

And now, so do I.

The term "reacharound" has two primary meanings: a sexual act and an idiom. Sexually, it refers to manual stimulation of a partner's genitals during anal or vaginal intercourse from behind. Idiomatically, it can mean an ostensibly thoughtful gesture, often used to win favor or mitigate unfairness.

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