Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also climb over someone’s frame, climb up someone’s back) to harass or criticize verbally.

1896		W.C. Gore Student Sl. in Cohen (1997) 13: climb over one’s frame To scold.
1962		(con. 1940s) G. Mandel Wax Boom 277: I’m not bothering anybody. Why do people come climbing up my back?
2000		Praise Net! 14 Feb. 🌐 I had an elder who climbed my frame because I called our morning service ‘assembly’ instead of ‘morning worship.’.

2. (US, also climb someone’s ass, jar someone’s frame, rock...) to assault physically.

1939		T. Wolfe Web and the Rock 40: I’ll come right over there and climb your frame.
1960		(con. WWII) R. Leckie Marines! 22: ‘Gallagher, Ahm gonna climb youah frame. On youah feet!’ [...] They fought for fifteen minutes and it must have been a good scrap.
1962		P. Crump Burn, Killer, Burn! 163: ‘I’ll rock your frame,’ I threatened [...] ‘I’ll jar your frame.’.
1966		‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 137: One of these days a sonofabitch that calls himself Cap Bruner is gonna get his frame clumb. And I mean clumb good.
1970		J. Wambaugh New Centurions 101: ‘[S]omebody that‘s so pissed off at his landlord or tenant that he‘s ready to climb the ass of anybody that comes through the door’.
2002		No Nonsense Self Defence 🌐 Bubba, however doesn’t give a shit. When he decides it is time to fight, he is going to try to climb your frame. And he doesn’t care how he does it.

(N.Z.) to move, to make a sudden journey.

1918		Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 May 6/2: ‘Say, old Bluebeard,’ he cried, ‘if you’re anywheres about, hop your frame out.’.
1947		D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 209: Got fed up after the brigade came back from Gazala [...] So I hopped my frame to Cairo for a spell.