rut

Plural: ruts

Noun

• a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
• a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
  • "they fell into a conversational rut"
• applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
• Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season.
• The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
• Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
• In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
• A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
• A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.
• A dull routine.

Verb

Verb Forms: rutted, rutting, ruts

• To make a groove or furrow in a surface.
• be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
• hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
• To be in the annual rut or mating season.
• To have sexual intercourse.
• To have sexual intercourse with.
• To rub the genitals against something for physical stimulation.
• To make a furrow.

Examples

• Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut.
• His gameplay had begun to rut, always relying on the same opening moves.

Synonyms

estrus, furrow, groove, heat, oestrus, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Formal terms, Informal and slang terms, Netflix and chill, approach, ball, bang, bauf, be with, beat, bed, beep, blissom, boff, boink, bone, bonk, boom-boom, bop, bounce, breed, brim, bull, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, cohabit, coit, coitize, company, copulate, couple, dance, dick, diddle, dig out, dight, dip one's pen in someone's inkwell, discuss Uganda, do, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, doink, drill, eff, engage in sex, engender, enjoy, exchange flesh, expletive deleted, feague, feck, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get busy, get down, get freaky, get into someone's pants, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get lucky, get one's dick wet, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get over on, get physical, get some, get the dirty water off one's chest, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go all the way, go in unto, go to bed with, go with, graft the forked tree, haul one's ashes, have, have intimate relations, have it away, have it off, have marital relations, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, have sex, have sexual relations, hide the salami, hide the sausage, hide the wienie, hike the Appalachian Trail, hit, hook up, hump, intercourse, jape, jig-jig, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock boots, knock off, know, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, lay pipe, lay the pipe, lie by, lie with, love, love up, make, make it, make love, make out, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, mate, meddle, ming, mount, nail, occupy, oestruate, penetrate, pipe, pipe down, play, play hide the sausage, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, rail, ream, ride, rock, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, routine, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, season, seduce, see someone's etchings, see to, service, sex, shaft, shag, share a bed, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, slay, sleep together, sleep with, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, stick, strain, swive, take, tap, tumble, tup, wap

Antonyms

anestrus

Related Words

heat, rut roh