hit the sheets

hit the sheets (third-person singular simple present hits the sheets, present participle hitting the sheets, simple past and past participle hit the sheets)

1. (slang) To go to bed.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:go to bed

2. (slang) To have sex.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate

   • 2024 October 2, Kit Jannar, “My Hetero Hunk of a French Lover Asked Me to F*ck Him Like a Woman”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[1]:

     From the moment I landed, Étienne oozed a sexual dominance that had me quite literally oozing in turn during our first kiss in the airport as he held me against him, his hand strong and powerful on my lower back. For the next three days, I found myself beautifully and irresistibly dominated by him every time we hit the sheets, which was often.

• “hit the sheets v.” under “sheet n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present