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ride a rantipole

ride a rantipole is the alternative form of ride rantipole.

Meaning of ride rantipole

Verb

ride rantipole (third-person singular simple present rides rantipole, present participle riding rantipole, simple past rode rantipole, past participle ridden rantipole)

  1. (archaic, intransitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with the woman positioned on top of the man.
    • 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[.]1772, Samuel Bentley, “Prize Ænigma”, in The Ladies' Diary: or Woman's Almanack, volume 69, page 31

Forms of ride a rantipole

third-person singular presentrides a rantipole
present participleriding a rantipole
pastrode a rantipole
past participleridden a rantipole

Questions about ride a rantipole

What is ride a rantipole the alternative form of?
Ride a rantipole is the alternative form of ride rantipole.

Words near ride a rantipole in the dictionary

  1. RIDDOR
  2. ride
  3. ride a hobby
  4. ride a horse foaled by an acorn
  5. ride a horse foaled of an acorn
  6. ride a rantipole
  7. ride along
  8. ride alongs
  9. ride and tie
  10. ride bitch
  11. ride by

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