strum:

1. A 17 ^th century musical metaphor for copulation . Defined by Captain Francis Grose in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) as: ' To have-carnal-knowledge-of a woman .'

2. An abbreviation for strumpet in the sense of a prostitute . See prostitute for synonyms.

3. To masturbate , said of a female. See masturbation-female for synonyms.

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