<P> Making out is a term of American origin, dating back to at least 1949, and is used variously to refer to kissing, petting, and necking, but may also refer to non-penetrative sex acts such as heavy petting . Snogging has roughly the same meaning in British English and in some related varieties of English, except in Hiberno - English (spoken in Ireland), where it is more commonly known as shifting . </P> <P> The sexual connotations of the phrase "make out" appear to have developed in the 1930s and 1940s from the phrase's other meanings of "to succeed". Originally, it meant "to seduce" or "to have sexual intercourse with". When performed in a car, it may be euphemistically referred to as parking . </P>

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