Home › Words › R › rantipolerantipolerantipole means rude; unruly.EtymologyFrom ranty and pole, poll (“head”).adjRude; unruly.nounA rude, unruly young person.A rakish person.A prostitute.e.g.“Farewell to the change, / Where rantipoles range; / Farewell cold tea, / And ratafie, / Hide-park, where pride / In coaches ride,” — 1740, “Song XLV”, in The Tea-Table Miscellany: or, a Collection of Choice Songs, Scots and English, 10th edition, volume 3, London: A. Millar, page 265:A sex position with the woman on top of the man.verbTo act in a rude, unruly fashion.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).