friends with benefits

Meaning. A friendship that includes casual sexual activity without a committed relationship.

See it in a sentence

They said they were just friends with benefits.

How each generation says it

The closest equivalent for this idea in every generation.

Gen Z
FWB,situationship
Gen Alpha
Haven't found the match yet.
Millennial
Netflix and chill
Gen X · this one
friends with benefits
Boomer
free love,no strings attached
Plain English
friendship that includes casual sexual activity without a committed relationship

A romantic partner; a term of endearment shortened from babe, popular in the early 2010s.

Short for babe or baby, used affectionately, often for friends.

Big d--- energy: an air of relaxed, quiet, unbothered confidence.

A quirky but harmless trait in a partner that is neither good nor bad.