Usually means: Intense, affectionate physical contact, non-intercourse.
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  1. heavy petting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. heavy petting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. heavy petting: Wiktionary
  4. Heavy Petting (album), Heavy Petting (disambiguation), Heavy Petting, Heavy petting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. heavy petting: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Heavy petting: Medical dictionary

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  1. heavy petting: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heavy petting)

▸ noun:  (dated) Sexual groping; erotic horseplay; foreplay.

Similar:
horse-play, humpathon, hand job, hand-holding, horsiness, pedohebephilia, humping, bear hug, hippophile, horizontal hula, more...

Phrases:
No Heavy Petting, Heavy Petting Zoo, more...

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Similar:
horse-play, humpathon, hand job, hand-holding, horsiness, pedohebephilia, humping, bear hug, hippophile, horizontal hula, more...

Phrases:
No Heavy Petting, Heavy Petting Zoo, more...



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