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How came she (thought I at the instant) by all this penetration? My devil surely does not play me booty. If I thought he did, I would marry and live honest, to be even with him.
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Also: to play (someone) booty: to act falsely (against someone) for gain.
"professor, what's another word for pirate treasure?"
"plunder, gain, profit," c.1439, from O.Fr. butin "booty," from M.L.G. bute "exchange;" infl. in form and sense by boot (2). Meaning "female body considered as a sex object" is 1920s, black slang.
Shake it till you break it. ;-)
Shake shake shake.
Shake shake shake.
Shake your booty.
"He heaves his booty, tugs askew his peaked cap and hobbles off mutely."
Joyce, Ulysses, 15
booty: behind, butt, posterior, etc.