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bill and coo

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bill and coo  (old-fashioned)
if you bill and coo with someone you love, you talk quietly to them and kiss them
Usage notes: If birds bill and coo, they touch beaks and make noises to each other.
(often in continuous tenses) I don't know why they bother to come out if they're going to spend all their time billing and cooing.
See also: and, bill


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Here in Harlem that summer night, there was no Kin Bill--only Bill and coo.
The posters trumpet ``Boheme'' as ``the Greatest Love Story Ever Sung,'' but the poet Rodolpho and the tubercular seamstress Mimi fight as often as they bill and coo.
 
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