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What is "turn-on"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
turn-on
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Her voice is a total turn-on.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I found this such a turn-on that I nearly came then and there.
▪ Who knows, it may even work as a kind of sick turn-on.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
turn-on

that which arouses or excites, 1968, originally of psychedelic drugs, from verbal phrase turn on "activate (a mechanism)" (1833), specifically from figurative sense turn (someone) on "excite, stimulate, arouse," recorded from 1903; from turn (v.) + on (adv.).

Wiktionary
turn-on

n. (context idiomatic English) Something that attracts, gives pleasure, or encourages, especially sexually.

WordNet
turn-on

n. something causing excitement or stimulating interest

Wikipedia
Turn-On

Turn-On is an American sketch comedy series that aired on ABC in February 1969. Only one episode was shown, leaving one episode unaired, and the show is considered one of the most infamous flops in TV history.

Turn-On's sole episode was shown on Wednesday, February 5, 1969, at 8:30 pm ET. Among the cast were Teresa Graves (who would join the Laugh-In cast that autumn) and longtime children's show host, character actor, and voice artist Chuck McCann. The writing staff included a young Albert Brooks. The guest host for the first episode was Tim Conway.

Usage examples of "turn-on".

Finding out his fantasies and his sexual fingerprint is the key to unlocking his unique turn-ons.

He collected up all the grass and the three little vials of powdered acid, and he picked up all the color po laroids laying around that a boy had taken earlier to take back to Jax to the group on account of the girl painted all over eyes was a big turn-on for him.

We had almost two lids of Acapulco Gold, and we just started a lot of turn-ons there in the cottage, relating to each other, that's all.

The one at which you made a speech- de Meister shuddered in his turn-on the detective novel.

A dream of facing a crowd of naked, virile men who were all desperate for her sexual favor was a turn-on, because it meant she was infinitely desirable and had control of the situation.

The photographs would be a turn-on to someone who has a very active and aggressive fantasy life that is devoted to violent, sexualized thought.

Some men and lesbians see it as a turn-on or a mission, as if by sexualizing our relationship they can pull me back from the wreckage of that day.

You take your turn-ons where you find them, and Wyatt was mine—no matter what he was wearing.

His turn-ons are the ocean, playing the toad lotto, and talking animals on TV.