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rode rantipole

rode rantipole is the simple past 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

Questions about rode rantipole

What is rode rantipole the simple past of?
Rode rantipole is the simple past of ride rantipole.

Words near rode rantipole in the dictionary

  1. rode or died
  2. rode out
  3. rode out the storm
  4. rode over
  5. rode pillion
  6. rode rantipole
  7. rode roughshod over
  8. rode rusty
  9. rode Saint George
  10. rode shotgun
  11. rode St George

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