Action
Action noun - Something done by someone.
Making out and action are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Making out" instead a noun "Action".
Making out
Action and making out are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Action" instead a noun phrase "Making out".
Both terms in one sentence
- After a long night patrolling and slaying Buffy often can't be bothered giving detailed after action reports, replying with "Vampires, killed 'em." Though in one episode it was because she didn't want people to know she'd been making out with Angel instead.
Source: Terse Talker - In "Manos" The Hands of Fate, the action keeps on cutting to two teenagers making out in a convertible.
Source: Recurring Extra -
He calls them "action figures," everybody else calls them "dolls." Les Yay: In-universe example; Kelso thinks that Laverne and Shirley are "one bottle of wine away from making out", just like Jackie and Donna.
Source: Series / That '70s Show
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