"rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/22/2011 12:05 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
>Don't forget the 1950's rock 'n' roll song "Shake, Rattle, and Roll."
>G. Cohen

Are the lyrics sufficiently unambiguous?  Perhaps I misunderstood
them in my infancy.

Joel


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>Joel S. Berson,Tue 2/22/2011 10:31 AM, wrote:
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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.
>
>Joel
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