n 1  :  an opening or a place through which something is let out <the pelvic >   2  :  a means of release or satisfaction for an emotion or impulse <coitus had been the second chief source of the premarital in all of the groups after age twenty -A. C. Kinsey et al>  .
 
   
 
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