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noun
An ancient Japanese custom in which a young unmarried man would go out at night and silently enter the house of a young unmarried woman for sexual intercourse, sometimes as a prelude to marriage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable
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Synonyms: night crawling
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Japanese 夜這い (literally “night crawling”).
