Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US campus) to have sexual intercourse without using a contraceptive.

1989

P. Munro Sl. U.

1. (N.Z. prison) to smuggle contraband into prison.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 54/1: do the deed n. 1 to smuggle contraband (e.g. money, drugs or alcohol) into a prison, usually during visiting hours.

2. (N.Z. prison) to take revenge on someone; to mark down for an attack.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 54/1: do the deed n. 2 to take revenge upon someone [...] 4 to mark someone for an attack.

3. (N.Z. prison) to kill someone.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 54/1: do the deed n. 3 to kill someone.

4. (N.Z. prison) 4 to have sexual intercourse during a visit.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 54/1: do the deed n. 4 to have sexual intercourse during a visit.

to have sexual intercourse.

a.1593		Marlowe Ovid I 9: Mars in the deed the blacksmith’s net did stable.
1593		Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 6: Now am I entered: ‘Venus be my speede!’ But where’s the female that must do this deed?
1610		Beaumont & Fletcher Scornful Lady V i: Would I had been a carter, or a coachman! I had done the deed e’re this time.
1611		L. Barry Ram-Alley III i: A nimble spirited knaue, the villaine boy [...] has got the wench [...] Has done the deed, has pierst the vesslls head.
1617		Middleton & Rowley A Fair Quarrel III ii: physician.: Pray you mistake me not; indeed I love you. jane.: Indeed? What deed? physician.: The deed that you have done.
c.1640		J. Shirley Captain Underwit Act I: Custom and Nature make it less offense In women to comitt the deed of pleasure Then men to doubt their chastity.
1666		‘The Maid of Tottenham’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 111: When they had done their businesse, / And quickly done the deed.
1683		Unsatisfied Lovers Lamentation Come, come with speed and do the deed or else for love I dye.
1768		J. Ray Proverbs (4th edn) in Bohn (1855) 19: The best of the sport is to do the deed, and say nothing.
1837		‘A Pullet in Leg Alley Stood’ Ri-tum Ti-tum Songster 18: A cove [...] offered her a lousy deuce, / To snooze with her an hour. / Kit soon agreed; he did the deed, / Then from her he did sally.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) VIII 1727: She’d done the deed of darkness with em again, and [...] was ready to let me do it more.
1970		(con. 1950s) H. Junker ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen Age of Rock 2 (1970) 102: Does she put out? Lay it on the line? Do the deed?
1977		L. Heinemann Close Quarters (1987) 134: She even did the deed for Haney’s kid brother, who ain’t never had any.
1989		P. Munro Sl. U.
2004		T. Winton ‘Boner McPharlin’s Moll’ in Turning (2005) 261: Everyone at school assumed that Boner and I were doing the deed every time I climbed into his van.
2010		(con. 1973) C. Stella Johnny Porno 141: He’d done the deed and she made a few phone calls right there in front of him.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 134: She won’t say whether she and Joan did or didn’t do the deed.