smooching n.
1. (orig. US, also smooching party) kissing and cuddling.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Tallahassee Democrat (FL) 2 Apr. 2/2: Ossie says smooching is taboo...that he tells his dates that unless they can carry on a couple of hours conversation that he isn’t interested. | |
| Hash House Lingo 51: Smooching, employee making love to one of the opposite sex while on duty. | |
| ‘Dying to See Willie’ in Popular Detective Mar. 🌐 It was quite evident that Melvin Trumbo was slicking up for some smooching for the ex-con wore a nice white shirt. | |
| Chippewa Herald Falls (WI) 21 Dec. 2/3: Police inspector [...] ordered an end to smooching [...] the trusty prisoners will have to visit their wives [...] through jail bars. | |
| Lancaster Eagle-Gaz. (OH) 30 Sept. 6/2: Congress [should] enact a law requiring that lipsticks carry labels requiring that lipsticks carry labels warning that smooching may be hazardous to the health. | |
| Dear ‘Herm’ 83: God only knows what goes on in non-stop smoochings of that duration. | |
| Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 7 Aug. 8D/2: Smooching in a car [...] has it all over smooching in a movie house. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Age (Melbourne) 11 May 37/5: I want to go to a French film and smooch in the back row with a boy. Then i want to go to a bar [...] with the boy and talk about smooching. | |
| Dly News (NY) S 12 Feb. p8/3oI think smooch is a good word. lots of smoochingtlight: . | |
| (con. 1940s–60s) Straight from the Fridge Dad 170: Smooching party Kissing. | |
| Chicago Trib. sect. 7 31 May 13/2: I notice a well-dressed man and a very pretty young woman by the bar smooching. |
2. (also smoocher) in fig. sense, becoming non-sexually intimate with.
| ‘The Big Squawk’ in Smashing Detective Mag. 15 Apr. 🌐 How do the officers know that you and Pete Rundell have not been working some kind of smoocher with Hammerton? |