Roots (Your daughter is correct)

[Richard Gage]

[From the OED definition of "root, v.1" ]:

 10. b. Austral. coarse slang. trans. (usu. with a male subject). To
copulate with; intr., to copulate, to
engage in sexual intercourse. Also in phr. to root like a rattlesnake, to
copulate vigorously.

1958 R. M. STUART in R. Chamberlain Stuart Affair (1973) ii. 12,
I took her bathers off. Then I raped her. She was hard to root.

1966 P. WHITE Solid Mandala 185
We'll root together so good you'll shoot out the other side of Christmas.

1969 Private Eye 1 Aug. 14
The Pope's a Jew if that jam tart doesn't root like a rattlesnake.

1974 K. COOK Bloodhouse 110
We found this bloody little poofter down on the beach fiddling with a
bird... Couldn't even root her.

James Smith wrote:

> Greetings from SLC, home of the soon-to-end 2002
> Winter Olympics.
>
> One of the commercial crazes has been the beret-style
> hats from Roots, of Canada, that were worn by the US
> team.  They have 2002, USA and Roots embroidered on
> them  The Roots store ran out these hats soon after
> the games began, and they are being scalped at up to
> $100.
>
> But my question is:  With all the talk of "roots",
> someone told my daughter that "roots" is an Aussie
> euphemism for sex, more specificly - fornication.  Any
> truth to this?
>
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> James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
> South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
> jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
>                                |or slowly and cautiously.
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