do it, v.¹ — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

do it v.¹

[euph.]

1. to have sexual intercourse; cite 1843 prob. suggests something less than intercourse.

1542		‘The Jolly Beggar’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 7: I took ye for some gentleman, at least the laird of Brodie; / O dool for the doing o’t! are ye the poor bodie?
c.1591		Shakespeare Comedy of Errors III ii: Do it by stealth; Muffle your false love with some show of blindness.
1607		Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe II ii: To morrow; sheele not sleepe then but tumble [...] If you doot to night, it would better please her then to morrow.
c.1629		R. Brome City Wit II ii: The young ones will learn to do’, to do’t, / And the Old forget not to do it.
1641–74		‘The Coy Shepherdess’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) II 33: She cry’d Pish nay fye for shame / in faith you shall not do it.
1654		Ranters Last Sermon 2 Aug. 5: Dear Sisters, you may freely doo’t / As easy as to stirr a foot, / But if you cannot, tell me now, / And I myself will teach you how.
1669		Pepys Diary VII 121: [I] did it backward, not having convenience to do it the other way.
c.1673		‘The Loving Chamber-Maid’ in Ebsworth Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 448: Ther’s none above fifteen but, if they’re put to’t, / Although they deny you, will willingly do’t.
1677		Behn Rover III iii: Flor. Sir, can you think— Will. That you’d do it for nothing? oh, oh, I find what you’d be at—look here, here’s a Pistol for you.
1682		‘Song of the Wives’ in Wilson Court Satires of the Restoration (1976) 112: Lady Parsons with Long-legged Sarsfield does do’t.
1694		‘Father’s Nown Child’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State V (1971) 427: One Madame Blount / Who’s witty and pretty, and goes very asprunt, / Will tell you how often Jack Somers has don’t.
1716		Proceedings Old Bailey 11 Apr. 5/1: He cry’d, G – d d--n you, if I can’t do it one Way, I’ll do it t’other.
1720		‘The Silent Flute’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 229: Eager to do’t, he takes the Flute, / And ev’ry Accent traces.
c.1790		‘Davy Blakeney’ Chap Book Songs 2: Instantly she mounted him and then she managed bravely [...] And did she do it, do it, do it.
c.1800		Burns ‘Muirland Meg’ in Merry Muses of Caledonia n.p.: And for a sheep-cloot she’ll do’t, / And for a sheep-cloot she’ll do’t; / And for a toop-horn she’ll do’t tae the morn, / And merrily turn and do’t, and do’t.
c.1820		‘The Bold English Navvy’ in Bold (1979) 29: And I know if I done it, I done it in fun, / And I’ll do it again with my navvy boots on.
1843		Satirist & Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 11 Feb. 2/1: She was doing it heavy in the Theatre with one of the B—tts Brothers Clerks, B—yne, while while her husband was using the Cue with another partner in a room hard by.
c.1850		Peeping Tom (London) 35 138/3: [He] proposed to lie down betwen the two women and have carnal intercourse [...] saying he would ‘do it’ to them both.
1857		Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: I saw a copy of your merry love paper, in which [...] Kate told how her cousin Bob did it to her; and I want to tell you how cousin Bob fixed me.
1876		John Read ‘All Do It’ 🎵 For hours three or four, lovers spooning at the door [...] Though if they have a lark, they have it in the dark / And they ‘do it’ though they say ‘they didn’t mean’.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) I 70: When shall we do it again?
1890		C. Pearl in Blatchford Memoirs (1983) 26: The only male we ever saw was an ancient gardener, who was [...] probably too old to ‘do it’.
1918		W.J. Schira diary 13 Dec. 🌐 I think she is darling and she is buzzing around me but I won’t make up with her. It doesn’t amount to a damn, if they do it with one, they will do it with all, and it cannot last anyway.
1927		W. Edge Main Stem 55: Oh! Tell me, how long / Do Ah got tuh wait? / kin Ah do-oo it now, / Oh, mus’ Ah hesitate?
1933		J. Spenser Limey 33: You c’n throw your love-hooks around Limey’s neck an’ show him how the Yankee girls do it.
1947		I. Shulman Amboy Dukes 48: She didn’t like doing it in a car.
1950		N. Cassady letter in Charters (1993) 202: Doing it on golfcourses, roofs, parks, cemeteries [...] doing it every way we could think of.
1960		C. Cooper Jr Scene (1996) 263: You’ll just do it with me and put me down.
1963		G‘Geoffrey Tolhurst’ Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 20: ‘I am playing hard to get, but I’m choosy who I do it with, and that rules you out completely’.
1966		P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 56: I got on the bed with this bird and got it in. I got the impression everybody was doing it.
1977		C. McFadden Serial 23: Listening to her describe the mating habits of blue herons, or as she put it, ‘how blue herons do it’.
1989		C. Hiaasen Skin Tight 102: Does this mean we’re never going to do it?
1998		G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 140: Rena started doing it for drinks and money, in closes and back alleys.
2001		(con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 90: ‘We ain’t cool no more. For the simple fact she did it to my boyfriend’.
2006		C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 62: Listen, sport, you want to do it or not?
2017		D. Winslow The Force [ebook] ‘You guys don’t have to get married just because you did it’ .
2017		G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] Sometimes they didn’t even do it.

2. of a man, to ejaculate; of a woman, to reach orgasm.

1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) I 76: [I] think I hear her now saying [...] ‘Oh! — oh! — I am doing it — oh!’.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 694: He hasnt such a tremendous amount of spunk in him when I made him pull it out and and do it on me considering how big it is.

3. (Aus./US) put in an effort; to come up to or surpass expectations.

1977		W.D. Myers Mojo and the Russians 2: [I] was just about ready to straighten out and really do it to the finish line.
1998		R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] ‘Kick back and grab some tube with us. This movie’s doing it’.
2008		D. Jenkins Franchise Babe 19: Milk Duds, sour balls, and chewing gum weren’t doing it for me.

In compounds

do-it fluid (n.)

(US black) liquor, usu. gin, usu. as an enhancer of sexual potency.

1966		Boston Globe (MA) 8 May 16/4: You know what we call a gin and tonic? Do-it fluid.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 187: Hard liquor also had its own vernacular labels – oil, ignite oil, do-it fluid, jump steady.

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do it all (v.) (also get it all)

(US prison) to serve a life sentence; to serve the whole of a sentence, with no time off for good behaviour.

1912		D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 24: I afterward learned he was ‘doing it all’.
1923		J. Fishman Crucibles of Crime 196: The ‘trusty’ who found the guns and turned them in was ‘doin’ it all’.
1931		G. Milburn ‘Convicts’ Jargon’ in AS VI:6 438: doing it all. Serving a life-sentence. ‘This gee is doing it all.’.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks 47/2: Got it all, a life sentence.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 60/1: Do it all. 1. (P) To serve the maximum term, with no good time off for good behavior. 2. To serve a life sentence.
1964		B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 83: Boys, I was doin’ it all [life sentence] at the Southeast Wall / where my partner was sentenced to die.

do-it-easies (n.) [they help make being in prison easier]

(N.Z. prison) tranquilizers.

1982		G. Newbold Big Huey 247: do-it-easies (n) Tranquillisers.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 59/1: do-it-easy n. a tranquilliser.

do it for (v.)

to beat up; to assault.

1872

Proc. Old Bailey 6 May 80: We have found the b—cow that lagged him, and we have done it for her.

do it on the rush (v.)

to run away, to escape.

1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1873		Sl. Dict.

do it up (v.)

to accomplish one’s object, to have success; thus do it up in good twig, to live a constantly enjoyable (and ever-improving) life.

1812		Vaux Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 236: do it up: to accomplish any object you have in view; to obtain any thing you were in quest of; is called doing it up for such a thing; a person who contrives by nob-work, or ingenuity, to live an easy life, and appears to improve daily in circumstances, is said to do it up in good twig.
1830		W.T. Moncrieff Heart of London II i: He’s been working on the Mace – doing it up very blue, and so they’ve lumbered him for a few moons.
1837		A. Greene Glance at N.Y. I ii: Let’s do it up pretty.
1848		‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. II 35: Vel, then, crack it, my lucky; but do it up right!
1857		Bell’s Life in Victoria (Melbourne) 8 Aug. 2/6: ‘You’ve done it up pretty well, lately, Percy, ca’'t you put us into a good thing?’.
1958		H. Ellison Web of the City (1983) 72: But tonight, they were doing it up sky-blue.
1986		D. Barker Life in Jazz 24: On the way back the brass band wailed, with Manuel Perez, Kimball, Eddie Jackson, Trappanier doing it up.

do-it-yourself (n.) (also do it yourself kit)

masturbation.

1960		N. Monsarrat Nylon Pirates in DSUE (1984).
1989		J. Morton Lowspeak 51: Do it yourself kit – masturbation.

do it v.1

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do it v.¹