Hard-on

Specialty Definition: Erection

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Erection is the hardening, enlarging and rising of the penis which often occurs in the sexually aroused male. Erection enables sexual intercourse and some other sexual activities, though it is not essential for all of them.

In addition to sexual arousal, erection can be caused by friction or by the pressure of the filled urinary bladder. In healthy males, erections occur several times per night during sleep, and morning erections when waking up are common. Erections already occur in infant boys.

Physiologically, an erection is achieved by two mechanisms that play together: increased inflow of blood into the vessels of erectile tissue, and decreased outflow. The vessel system involved is known as the corpora cavernosa and the corpus spongiosum. After a signal from the sympathetic nervous system, muscles in the region relax, allowing more blood to enter the sponge-like tissues. Contraction of other muscles reduce the outflow. The enlarged structure then exerts pressures on the exit vein, further reducing the outflow.

As blood flows in, the penis stiffens, its girth and length increases, and it rises to an angle that can vary from horizontal to almost vertical. Normally, the foreskin retracts and exposes the glans.

When the erection mechanism fails to function properly, the result is impotence. Impotence in humans is treated with prosthetic devices, and with prescription drugs. Some prescription drugs are injected directly into the corpus cavernosum or used as urethral suppositories, directly causing erection even in the absence of sexual excitation, while others, such as Viagra, are taken orally and support erection that is due to sexual excitation.

Both an erection and the absence of an erection can be embarrassing, depending on circumstances.

An erection may be embarrassing:

if the man or boy does not want to reveal that he is sexually aroused
if the erection is not caused by sexual arousal, but just by friction etc., and the man or boy does not want to create the wrong impression that he is sexually aroused
in a situation where an erection is inappropriate, such as in a classroom or a public place.

Not having an erection may be embarrassing:

if a man or boy is with a partner and it wrongly creates the impression that he does not find the other person attractive

Also it may be disappointing for the partner because he or she finds an erection attractive, and disappointing for both for being limited in sexual activities.

In several countries, movies and magazines available to juveniles may not depict erections; such depictions are often taken as one criterion to distinguish between soft and hard pornography.

Erections may occur even after death, if the pressure within the penis increases for some reason, for example due to the formation of gases of putrefaction.

The clitoris of females also contains erectile tissue and may become erect during sexual arousal; the erection of nipples however is not due to erectile tissue.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Erection."

Synonym: Hard-on

Synonym: erection (n). (additional references)

Modern Usage: Hard-on

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	A hard-on should be achieved legitimately or it shouldn't be achieved at all. (Analyze This; writing credit: Kenneth Lonergan; Peter Tolan) A hard-on should be achieved naturally or not at all. (Analyze This; writing credit: Peter Tolan, Harold Ramis, and Ken Lonergan.) God has a hard-on for Marines because we kill everything we see. He plays His games, we play ours (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick) And it gives me a hard-on. (Once Upon a Time in America; writing credit: Harry Grey; Leonardo Benvenuti) When a man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher's knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross (Dirty Harry; writing credit: Harry Julian Fink; Rita M. Fink)
Movie/TV Titles	Hard-on Copy (1994)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Hard-on

Expression: Hard-on

Modern Translation: Hard-on

Language		Translations for "hard-on"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		wasserlatte (early-morning erection, early-morning hard-on). (various references)

Hungarian		erekciója van (have got the horn, have the horn), áll a zászló, áll a farka. (various references)

Pig Latin		ard-onhay.(various references)

Portuguese		tes�o. (various references)

Swedish		stånd (condition, estate, hard on, order, set, sideshow, stall, stand). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Hard-on

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: hadron.
	Words within the letters "a-d-h-n-o-r"
	-1 letter: adorn, hoard, honda, radon.
	-2 letters: darn, dona, hand, hard, hoar, hora, horn, nard, orad, rand, road, roan.
	-3 letters: ado, and, dah, don, dor, had, hao, hod, hon, nah, nod, noh, nor, oar, ora, rad, rah, ran, rho, rod.
	-4 letters: ad, ah, an, ar, do, ha, ho, na, no, od, oh, on, or.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-h-n-o-r"
	+1 letter: bodhran, hadrons.
	+2 letters: anchored, bodhrans, chaldron, chlordan, forehand, hadronic, handover, handwork, hardnose, hoarding, honorand, nonhardy, orphaned, overhand, rhodamin.
	+3 letters: anhydrous, arachnoid, chaldrons, chancroid, chlordane, chlordans, diachrony, dichondra, dragonish, forehands, handiwork, handovers, handsomer, handworks, handwrote, hardbound, hardnoses, harpooned, hoardings, hoarsened, holandric, honorands, hydration, hydrozoan, northland, northward, overhands, rhodamine, rhodamins, shorthand.
	+4 letters: achondrite, admonisher, anthropoid, arachnoids, archdeacon, beforehand, chancroids, chaperoned, chardonnay, chlordanes, coanchored, decahedron, diachronic, dichondras, disharmony, dragonhead, earthbound, encroached, forehanded, handbarrow, handiworks, handworker, harmonised, harmonized, headstrong, hexahedron, hydrations, hydromancy, hydrophane, hydroplane, hydrozoans, ironhanded, landholder, longhaired, motherland, northlands, northwards, octahedron, orphanhood, overhanded, overhandle, parenthood, punchboard, radiophone, rhodamines, scherzando, shorthands, unanchored, uphoarding.
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Domain	Definition
Multilingual Slang	Dutch (paal), French (tringle). (references)
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Sexuality	Sex instinct, sex drive, libido, lust, concupiscence;hots, horns; arousal, heat, rut, estrus, oestrus; tumescence; erection, hard-on, boner.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	50%	2	245,945
Adjective (general or positive)	50%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Hard-on

Definition: Hard-on

Hard-on

Noun

Specialty Definition: Hard-on

Multilingual Slang

Specialty Definition: Erection

Synonym: Hard-on

Synonyms within Context: Hard-on

Sexuality

Modern Usage: Hard-on

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Usage Frequency: Hard-on

Expression: Hard-on

Modern Translation: Hard-on

German

Hungarian

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Swedish

Anagrams: Hard-on

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

INDEX

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "hard-on": semi-hard-on.
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