I love the word “flex” because I repurposed it.
For years I have been plagued with a problem: I have several good friends who used to be lovers. But when referring to them, it always felt wrong to call them “ex-girlfriends”. The implication of the term is that this is a person with whom you have little contact. What I needed was a word that could be defined as
former lover, present friend
And so “flex” was born. I have written it into the Urban Dictionary (go here to vote it up in the ranks).
I have also defined “flex” with a few prefixes:
- ex-flex: A former lover who then became a friend, but who is presently neither.
- sex-flex: A former lover, present friend, who one occasionally has sex with.
- best flex: One’s favorite former lover, present friend.
- boyflex: Former male lover, present male friend.
- girlflex: Former female lover, present female friend.
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