How does one go redrum over an ass?

I am not a follower of "How To Get Away With Murder" (ABC crime series) but when the latest episode was playing in the background, I was startled enough to sit up and take note when one female character said to her lawyer "I've been staring at the wall for three days. If I don't get some company soon, I might go red rum all over your ass. But something tells me you might be into that."

This piece of modern patois is completely alien to me. I came across the term redrum some years ago as a word play based on the fact it is the word murder spelled backwards. But that usage does not seem to easily fit the context of two potential suitors chatting each other up.

So I am definitely nonplussed, and feel that I ought not to be. So, fellow spankos, if you can shed some light on this matter, your insight would be most welcome. Perhaps even initiate new some bizarre tale, I would not be at all surprised.

Beats me - the only Red Rum I know was a racehorse. The 'murder spelt backwards' comes from the movie 'The Shining', I think. I've never heard it used in a spanking/flirting context before...

I think it was first used as a code for murder (spelled backwards)in the Steven King novel The Shining. Spanking was mentioned in that too! But redrum was depicted as something very sinister (which it is).... definitely not flirtatious!

I immediately thought of the race horse too, but that picture was not a pretty one.

I have been told that murder is the street name given to a particularly strong cocaine derivative - but that does not seem to move things along very much. However, the female protagonist was wearing metal studs in her nose and on her cheek, so it could be ... No. That is not a pretty picture to imagine, either.

Maybe it is the racehorse, which was particularly famous, naturally, for being fast.

As an ass is a donkey, maybe this is about making little mules?

In THE SHINING, hadn't the father (Jack Torrance), who had issues with his temper, once broken the arm of his son (Danny) while supposedly positioning the kid in order to spank him?

The first time that Danny mentioned "redrum" in the novel, I immediately figured out that it was "murder" read/spelled backwards, but although Jack was a published author he never noticed that until it became glaringly obvious--since he'd also had issues with alcohol in his past, he apparently took it at face value as a reference to liquor.

Of course, I knew all along that I was reading a horror story, while Jack didn't know he was a character within one at that point in the book... --C.K.

The Urban Dictionary says ...

Word used in the novel "The Shining" by Stephen King and in the movie based on it and directed by Stanley Kubrick. "Murder" spelt backwards. Also works on many other levels, being suggestive of bloodshed, wrath, inebriation, violence, a force that consumes people's lives like some satisfying drink, and something used to subdue the Native American tribes that form a subtext of the film.

Taking the meaning as wrath and/or violence, and the fact that someone might or might not be into it, the quote could well refer to spanking.

Are you sure the charater in the TV show said redrum? Maybe she said redBum, and that's why she intimated that the lawyer might be into that.

Or "Er...hum...", which could easily accompany a reference to a sensitive subject.