rort v.2
1. as rort at, to shout, to complain loudly, to shout abuse.
Spring in Tartarus 327: It isn’t you, Holy Jesus, that I’m rorting at. | ||
Letters from the Big House 39: He shouldn’t rort for a snot-rag to wipe his nozzle. | ||
Sailors’ Sl. 97/2: Rort, to shout in argument or act truculently when charged with indiscipline... In Cockney Slang to rort is to ‘shout the odds.’. | ||
Muvver Tongue 95: To speak loudly and in anger is to ‘rort.’. |
2. to have sexual intercourse; thus rorting n.
No Sunlight Singing (1966) 196: I hear all these old hands talking about gin rorting, as if it’s the national sport in the Territory. | ||
(con. 1940s–60s) Snatches and Lays 37: Four-and-twenty prostitutes a-riding on a bus, / Fucking in the corridors, rorting on the stairs. | ‘Sixpence’ in||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 175: rort [...] is generally about political chicanery but, before that, was used to mean sexual intercourse or the female object thereof. Derived from British ‘rorty’, splendid, rowdy or coarse. ANZ. |
3. to go out on a spree.
Commander Brady 249: Now don’t forget. Nobody grogged up. Nobody rortin’ it up with them Yanks. | ||
I Think I’ll Live 179: I got to be mates with him, out dancing, shielah rortin together. |