Meaning of ride rantipole | Babel Free

Definitions

To have sexual intercourse with the woman positioned on top of the man.

archaic, intransitive, vulgar

Examples

“Oft in the Streets I'm ſeen to ride / Exalted, as it were for Pride; / And ſome will have it that I ſtroll, / Like Boys, when riding Rantipole[.]”

“How 'bout I let ya climb aboard me, love? I'll even let ya ride rantipole," slurred the stranger, waggling his bushy eyebrows.”

“As a verb, 'to ride rantipole' meant 'the woman uppermost in amorous congress', which adds an extra layer of humour to the poem, as Keats's Rantipole Betty is flat on her back, 'dead as a venus tipsy'.”

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