kiss pass
n.— «One of my more memorable jumps was when my wife and I first started dating and we did what’s called a kiss pass, which means that we were kissing in freefall.» —“Skydiving at VT” by James Carty in Virginia Tech Collegiate Times (Blacksburg, Virginia) Jan. 30, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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