The armpit and flank area of the
human body, in which another individual (normally a partner or close friend) snuggles into for security and comfort. An arm is placed around the snuglee at neck level, creating a fleshy
pillow of the shoulder or pectoral muscle, and sealing the oxter embrace.
Can be used to
mean both the lying oxter, as in a couple laying horizontal on a sofa or bed, or the standing oxter, as is often seen when a couple stands perpendicular to
one another, with the larger of the two placing an arm around the other.
After a
long and gruelling
day, we crawled onto the sofa, stuck on
Netflix and I burrowed into his oxter. I was asleep within minutes.