Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bustle-punching n.

also bustle-pinching
[SE bustle, a ‘dress-improver’ and out of fashion in the 20C / bustle n.2 + punching]

(UK/US police) the action of the frotteur, using the anonymity of a dense crowd to rub one’s penis against the nearby buttocks of defenceless women; thus bustle-puncher/bustle-rubber, a frotteur or one who caresses women’s buttocks in a crowd.

[UK] ‘Metropolitan Police Sl.’ in P. Laurie Scotland Yard (1972) 321: bustle puncher, a: one who caresses ladies’ bottoms in a dense crowd.
[US]J. Wambaugh Blue Knight 26: I guess even the wienie waggers and bustle rubbers gave up sneaking in.
[UK]D. Powis Signs of Crime 176: Bustle-punching The practice, not uncommon in dense crowds, of a male rubbing his penis against the buttocks of females. The penis may or may not be exposed.
[UK]J. Morton Lowspeak 32: Bustle Pinching, or Punching – the practice of rubbing up against women.