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tumble
noun- an act of sexual intercourse; an invitation to engage in sexual intercourse UK, 1903
- Nobody gave me a tumble, so I supposed I was to make the selection. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 64, 1947
- I knew she was belligerent; nobody had given her a tumble. — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye, p. 134, 1948
- Or if it wasn’t the end of it, if you could actually get a tumble from her, what of it? — Jim Thompson, A Swell-Looking Babe, p. 3, 1954
- Tricks whoh never gave me a tumble before think I’m something special now. — Judge John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cast the First Stone, p. 5, 1957
- A few tumbles during the war, then eighteen years of nothing. — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 260, 1964
- I saw at least a thousand I’d have married gladly on the spot if they’d given me a tumble. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, p. 189, 1972
- recognition by the police or the interruption of a crime US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 227, 1950
- a fight, especially a gang fight US
- You scared of a little tumble or something? — Man’s Magazine, p. 12, February 1960
▶ come a tumble
to be noticed US- If you two don’t shut up we’ll all come a tumble. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 50, 1958
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