please help disambiguate "make out in the car"

I will later explain the practical need behind my question; I need to go to sleep now, so I will just present the issue without further ado.

One of the gaps in my education was totally missing out on the whole American tradition of making out in parked cars.

Neither I nor the boys around me owned cars when I was young; holding each other gently in subway trains was all there was to combining boy-girl relationships with means of transportation.

Well, not all; in really packed commuter trains, I kept my would be first husband on the brim of ejaculating but not quite ejaculating a few times, and he did find it both torturous and pleasurable at the same time. OK, now that really was it and nothing else ever happened in any car, be it an automobile or a car that is a part of a train of any kind.

Later, in America, I learned the expression "to make out" and formed an idea of what "making out in a car" means.

Today, consulting with a dictionary
make out - definition of make out by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.,

I discovered the following:

make out

8. Slang
a. To neck; pet.
b. To have sexual intercourse.

So my understanding of this phrasal verb was (a) and solely (a).

I thought that (b) was specifically excluded from the scope of "making out". Apparently, there is some ambiguity that I was not aware of before.

Could someone who is in the know please shed light on the issue?

Actually, you got me here. I read the definition and thought WHAT!? I thought intercourse was a separate entity.

Making out has always meant heavy petting, grinding with clothes on, french kissing, necking, those sorts of things.

I can't say I'm a professional dictionary but, this astonishes me.

Thank you thank you thank you.

Words definitions can change according to their common usage. And it seems to me that this should be the case with 'make out'. In the movies it's clearly about kissing.

As for keeping your husband on the verge of ejaculating, this could be part of the 'make out' experience, but it mostly centres upon extended kissing and petting sessions.

Ah, making out in cars...lol how did you miss this nostalgic little piece of Americana?

Usually, it's...man it's hard not to say "making out" in defining "making out"...petting, necking (such as french kissing), or grinding while in a car. Aphrodite's definition is spot on. I have never heard of sex in the car being referred to as "making out"...usually we (well, they...lol can't include myself on this one ) call sex in the car by the eloquent and fitting phrase "sex in the car."

We are a simple people.

Yep, just to pile on here... "making out" is very similar to foreplay. Kissing, touching, etc. Penetration would not be considered making out. That would call for different euphemisms

Thank you, this is really helpful since I very rarely watch movies so I have an educational gap there as well.

I think that deferring to the usage in the movies makes even more sense than deferring to dictionary definitions.

OK, guys, this is plenty. I will go with the consensus opinion on here.

Have a good weekend!

"making out" have "bases". First base (just kissing and caressing above the neck) second base (feels you from the neck down up until your waist) third base (feels you below the waist, puts hand in your panties and plays with your genitals). Home run - no longer making out - you're ****ing.

Thank you. I have heard these terms before.

Do they refer to baseball?

I have never been able to grasp the rules of baseball - too complex.

They do refer to baseball. You don't need to know the rules of baseball. You just need to know 1st 2nd 3rd base and home run - which is what I described.

Just curious... where were you born and when did you come to this country? I ask because it seems odd to me that you're 42 years old and have no clue about the basics.

Yes, you did. Clear enough.

I came in my early twenties after having been born in the Soviet Union and then having lived in Germany.

I was married for much of the time (to compatriots) and, when not married, either not sexual due to the side effects of medications or involved with people who were sort of outside the realm of making out in cars due to their sociodemographic profiles.

in UK to make out can also mean to suggest e.g. he tried to make out i was wrong. but in the sexual context to make out is used for both heavy petting, all types of kissing and sexual intercourse, this could be in a car, on the street corner, on the parents sofa or in one or others bedroom or wherever else the couple may desire to show their affections for each other, legal or not!

when you say "legal"... and about the UK, specifically...

I have read someplace that there are parks in the UK where voyeurs watch couples in their cars

is that true?

Ah, I had no idea you were from the USSR! I've always wanted to visit Germany and Russia...though I suppose I'd really have to adapt and overcome my hatred of the cold for the latter. Do you speak both languages?

Dunno about the voyeurs, but I would imagine there'd be more than a few instances of that happening. The popular urban legend about the guy with the claw (I'll link it) is in that vein to a degree, and typically, there's a background to legends like that.

The Hook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I figure the tale probably plays off, to an extent, the fear of being watched while "parking."

I still do, and still cannot tolerate hot weather. Northern California is quite OK; Texas was NOT OK.

Speaking of hot weather, you can visit in summer. Summer is hot. The perfect time to visit Russia - specifically, Saint Petersburg (whose climate is described on Wikipedia as " Distinct moderating influence of the Baltic Sea cyclones result in warm, humid and short summers and long, cold wet winters." where the bold part is way too clinical and objective to relate just how horrible it is - is in June during the season called White Nights = the season of the midnight sun. The weather is warm and the White Nights experience is unmatched by anything else. Especially when you see the bridges open up at night.

White Nights Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So that would be the way to go for you - both to get the most spectacular experience and to avoid the cold you loathe.

And, while, technically speaking, the White Nights season is not unique to Saint Petersburg because Saint Petersburg is not the only high latitude city, the cultural experience IS unique.

Wikipedia: "The white nights is the name given in areas of high latitude to the weeks around the summer solstice in June during which sunsets are late, sunrises are early and darkness is never complete."

Oh that sounds amazing. lol I've been planning a sort of itinerary for years...Moscow, St. Petersburg, Izhevsk, and Volgograd. The first three especially. lol I'm a firearms enthusiast, and Izhevsk has both the Kalashnikov museum and the Arsenal Museum, among a few more. Of course, this is all pending the funding and scheduling to do so, so...perhaps in a decade or two.

The White Nights sounds simply beautiful though...I had never heard of them prior to now.

Assembling and disassembling the Kalashnikov firearms, as a speed test, was part of my HS curriculum.

Unfortunately, I cannot pick up where I left off in HS... after being on a 51/50 in California, you cannot legally possess firearms.

Ha! I like your curriculum better than I did mine. I think I can do mine in around 30 seconds, though I haven't actually timed myself. I only hang up on getting the piston carrier to reengage the rail...on the Romanian one more than the Russian. The Russian goes much smoother on the whole.

I would love the climate in California, but state laws prohibit that particular brand of fun in large regard.

Do all high population density states prohibit that particular brand of fun?

Not all. It varies from state to state, of course, but California's are among the strictest in the nation, surpassed only by Washington DC. Chicago, NYC, California, and DC all stand out as particularly restrictive.

I have a Romanian copy of a Kalashnikov (semi auto), but I wouldn't be able to possess it within the state. Nor my Saiga (the Russian one), for that matter, but that's me going of memory. I did a research paper on gun control last semester, and my memory of the specifics of California's laws is fading.

I haven't heard the term "necking" in years! I'm with Aphrodite's Muse, though.

'Making out'. I'm 63 and the fun I had making out in my assortment of junker cars BUT, I did get it on in the back seat of my dad's '68 Cadillac Coupe deVille with a buxom, very horny gf back in 1978 on a warm Miami night. She's still living there. Car sex is good dirty fun and I'd jump on it if I met a woman of any age who was game for it.