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Even in the gay community, many terms for bisexual suggest either sexual confusion or treachery, reflecting persistent negative attitudes towards individuals who refuse to “pick a side.”

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on a Saturday night.

—Woody Allen

AC/DC, ambidextrous, ambiguous, ambisextrous, ambisexual, amphigenous inversion, amphisexual, Androgynophylia, batting and bowling, batting for both teams, betty bothways, bi, bi-curious, bi-kinky, bi-possible, bibi, bi-chick, bi-guy, bicoastal, bisexuous, BSO, bungie boy, butcher boy, byke, CK1, confused, convertible, door's ajar, double adapter, double gaited, double life man, drinks from both taps, Dyke tester, fence-fucker, flexual, flip, flip-flop, fruit-picker, gate-swinger, Gillette blade, gray cat, greedy, half-and-half, half-bent, half rice half chips, happy shopper, heteroflexible, Horatian, intermediate, jack of all trades, jack of both sides, Jo-Ann, kiki, licks both sides of the stamp, mercenary, neither Arthur nor Martha, omnisexual, plays for both teams, plugs in both ways, questioning, rides a Bi-cycle, rides side-saddle, sexoschizia, sexually confused, shops on both sides of the street, side-saddle queen, simulsexual, swings both ways, switch hitter, TBH, try-sexual, twixter, two-way baby, two-way Johnny, versatile, waffler, wears bi-focals, yo-yo

Amphisexual: from the Latin amphi for on both sides.

BSO: “Bi significant other.”

Butcher boy: a gay man who has sex with a lesbian.

Bungie boy/girl: reference to bungie jumping, an “extreme sport” involving jumping from great heights, attached by a bungie cord.

Byke: a bisexual dyke

CK1: hipster talk for somebody “bi,” referring to a Calvin Klein perfume.

Door’s ajar: noun for one whose imminent coming out has been predicted.

Fence-fucker: derives from sitting on the fence, which suggests indecisiveness.

Flexual: open to same sex activity without identifying as gay.

TBH: “to be had.”

Try-sexual: tries anything.

Switch hitter: 20th-century American term; derives from baseball terminology for an ambidextrous hitter.