n.
Any of various forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural or abnormal, especially anal intercourse or bestiality.
[Middle English sodomie, from Old French, from Sodome, Sodom, from Latin Sodoma, from Greek, from Hebrew sədōm.]
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