Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. an erection; thus get/have a rise, to get an erection, give a rise, of a woman, to give a man an erection.

1881		‘New Year’s Day’ in Pearl Christmas Annual 21: He told me last night he hadn’t had a rise since he was made a judge six years ago.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) VIII 1555: Shew me your split, and see if it will give his cock a rise.
1904		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 25 May 3/4: ‘Comfortable, quiet home offered to anyone, willing to share bedroom with landlady’s daughter.— 12 Duncombe road, Hornsey Rise, N [...] Hornsey Rise! I should think so, indeed!
c.1940		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 211: They met on the track with their tools hanging slack, / Dressed only in shoes and a leer. / Both were fast on the rise, but they gasped at the size / Of Abdul the Bulbul Emir.
1998		Eble Campus Sl. Apr. 8: rise – penile erection.

2. in fig. use, a stimulus, excitement.

1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 276: I got some news might give you a rise, amigo.
2021		T. Pluck Boy from County Hell 322: Thirty years hadn’t killed the outlaw in him. The plan gave him a rise.

3. (US black) an event.

1990

W.D. Myers Mouse Rap 175: We’re in the park [...] a thousand thousand people. [...] I had Touch-Toned Booster early in the rise and he was on the scene.