Meaning

4 senses

  1. A rude, unruly young person.

  2. A rakish person.

  3. (archaic)A prostitute.

  4. (archaic)A sex position with the woman on top of the man.

Origin

From ranty and pole, poll (“head”).

From ranty and pole, poll (“head”).

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Forms

plural: rantipoles
Singularrantipole
Pluralrantipoles

regular

Synonyms

233 synonyms
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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
ransomrantrapA2rapacious

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