sow one's oats

1. 1.

   live promiscuously and self-indulgently

   Synonymssow one's wild oats

   Broadergratify

Questions about sow one's oats

What does sow one's oats mean?

sow one's oats means "live promiscuously and self-indulgently".

What is another word for sow one's oats?

Close synonyms include sow one's wild oats. 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 sow one's oats a common word?

sow one's oats is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.