"rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001

[Neal Whitman]

It shows up in George Macdonald Fraser's "Flashman" novels quite a bit,
along with "rogering".
They were written in the 20th century, set in the 19th.

Neal

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> The 2001 movie "The Banger Sisters" regularly uses the verb "rattle"
> = "have sexual intercourse with" (although not often does it use this
> euphemism) and the corresponding noun "rattle".
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> Not in the OED,  nor Wentworth & Flexner (1967) or Chapman (1995),
> the only slang books on my shelf.
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> In Urbandictionary, with this meaning.  HDAS?
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> Only mentioned because in my innocence I had not heard this before,
> and the OED could not enlighten me.  Not easy to find Googling.
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> Joel
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