Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. petting.

1967–8

Baker et al. CUSS 124: Get a little To neck.

2. sexual intercourse.

1939		T. Wolfe Web & Rock 54: These were the boys who [...] told about going to the whore houses [...] and said you could not call yourself a man until you had gone and ‘got yourself a little’.
1946		(con. a.1905) in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 666: When he starts to get a little it [i.e. the penis] bends in the middle.
1950		(con. c.1896) in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 613: I ain’t had none, can’t get a bit, / If I got a little, I ’spect I’d shit.
1965		J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 11: [She] spoke to him huskily. ‘How’d you like to have a little?’.
1975		D. Goines Inner City Hoodlum 131: I can use a little tonight.
1990		R. Campbell Sweet La-La Land (1999) 179: Maybe she’d be so grateful she’d give him a little.