romp v.
(US ) to have sexual intercourse [note the coincidental UK tabloid press use of romp n., a sexual entanglement, e.g., ‘three-in-a-bed romp’].
| [ | ![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies 32: This is an impudent little romp, who often lures some aged dotards, by a counterfeited appearance of fondness]. |
| Sam Sly 17 Feb. 3/3: It is not true that Mr. D—w [...] is fond of romping with Mrs. M., when a certain party is away. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘The Boogaboo’ in Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing (1995) 205: All in the first part of the night / How we did romp and play. | |
| Web of the City (1983) 121: Just out of the jailbait class. And raring to romp. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Persecutor 85: Start running, sister. A-romping we will go . . . [...] She fell asleep after our love-making. | |
 | Brother Ray 158: No one flaunted these affairs [...] you’d get through playing your music at some ridiculous hour and find yourself all high and ready to romp. | |
| London Fields 204: It wouldn’t be her who romped and basked with Keith and rolled with him in the mud. | |
| Three Queer Lives 201: Dedicated paedophiles [...] pounced . . .The purpose of these ungainly gymnastics was lost on the more naive boys; they referred to the odd activities as ‘romping,’ a verb which has since caught up with them. |
In derivatives
of a woman, ripe for sexual conquest.
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases. | |
| DSUE (8th edn) 986/1: since ca. 1935. |
In compounds
(US black) a night club.
| N.Y. Amsterdam News 2 Mar. 19: That nightclub cashier at an uptown romp spot. |
In phrases
(orig. racing) to win or succeed easily, lit. or fig.
| Famous Racing Men 16: The north-country horse was in grand condition [but] he could not touch Eclipse, who simply romped in, the easiest of the winners. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Jun. 14/2: In the first, with ‘spot barred,’ the Englishman displayed a lot of his old skill, and won easily. Later in the evening, when the men met for a second time, things went quite the other way, and the receiver of points ‘romped in.’. | |
| Sporting Life 20 Mar. 16: I recall his recent half-mile at Oxford, when he romped home in the easiest possible manner [F&H]. | |
| Hull Dly Mail 23 Oct. 3/5: It is this licence which makes ‘A Guilty Mother’ romp home. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 3 Nov. 24/1: There’s Lancaster, with handy weight – / A ‘monte’! it is said; / And Clean Sweep I must gravely state, / Can romp ’ome on ’is ’ead. | |
| Sporting Times 10 Mar. 9/1: [advert] If your gee-gee romps home at 200 to 1, you get those odds, less neither commission, expenses, nor the hundred and one other ‘extras’ that the usual turf accountant will mulct you in. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 30 July 10/3: So she was advised to wait for an actual vacancy, and on the occurrence of one she has ‘romped in,’ even though opposed by Thomas Ryan, chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Education. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Post (Lanarks.) 6 June 8/2: Chimiez will romp home in a canter. | |
| Dundee Courier 17 June 3/6: The King and Queen were there to see [...] Flare romp home to victory. | |
| Eve. Teleg. 28 Sept. n.p.: The league champions should romp home. | |
| Tamworth Herald 18 Nov. 8/3: I see no reason why he should not romp home to-night. | |
| Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] ‘I’m going for my black belt in a few weeks.’ ‘You’ll romp it in, Kath’. |
(US campus) to accelerate in a car.
| ‘Razorback Sl.’ in AS L:1/2 65: romp it v phr Accelerate a car. |
(US) to beat up.
| Salt Lake Herald Republican (UH) 17 Apr. 3/2: If I had you here, though, I’d romp on you, right. |