ride rantipole

present singular third person rides rantipole · participle present riding rantipole · past rode rantipole · participle past ridden rantipole · alternative ride a rantipole

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

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

   2021, Emma Lombard, chapter 3, in Grace on the Horizon (The White Sails; 2)

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   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

   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'.

   [2021, Lucasta Miller, Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph

   Synonyms: cowgirl, ride St. George