Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. of either gender, to initiate or to have sexual intercourse.

c.1597		Shakespeare Henry IV Pt 2 II iv: pist.: Then to you, Mistress Dorothy; I will charge you. dol.: Charge me! I scorn you, scurvy companion.
1650		News from the New-Exchange (1731) 14: And she has one dangerous Trick; that if you will not charge her, she will charge you.
1654		Mercurius Fumigosus 6 5 July 46: One of her Neighbours [...] opens against her thus: Goe, goe yee Whore, goe to Tower-hill, and get your GUN scowr’d ye Whore, before ye shal charge with my husbands Gunstick.
1966		B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 129: Put you some pillows up under whore’s belly and then charge her asshole some. / Charge that bitch’s ass and charge it hard, / till the bitch no more can feel one slidin’ fart.

2. (US) to have a riotously good time.

1873

J.H. Beadle Undeveloped West 369: ‘Brad Collins is on a big spree [...]’ ‘You bet he’s a chargin’.’ [HDAS].

3. (US) to hold up (a bank) at gunpoint.

1933		Ersine Und. and Prison Sl.
1937		E. Anderson Thieves Like Us (1999) 48: If you boys want to charge a filling station I’m with you.
1948		They Live By Night [film script] We got us a little bank in Cedars just itchin’ to be charged.
1958		E. Gilbert Vice Trap 56: You go help him charge his bank, if there even is one.

4. (US) to arouse sexually.

1966		Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
1979		J. Rechy Rushes (1981) 36: Chas separated himself from the two other men — to go, he said, fondling it, to ‘charge up’ his cock in one of the warehouses where men were lingering.
1990		(con. early 1950s) J. Ellroy L.A. Confidential 187: She wasn’t bad in bed – but he had to think of Inez to charge up enthusiasm.