love bite

1. 1.

   a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover

   Synonymshickey

   Broadererythema

Questions about love bite

What does love bite mean?

love bite means "a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover".

What is another word for love bite?

Close synonyms include hickey. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is love bite a common word?

love bite is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.