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slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component
Cockney rhyming slang
How To Use rhyming slang In A Sentence
- You referred to the expression frisking a cly as Cockney rhyming slang. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
- Shameless cogging apart, his reliance on rhyming slang (βHe's gone down with a touch of rising damp) does him no favours.β
- Pony is Cockney rhyming slang, you see, as in pony and trap, geddit?
- He professed to feeling proudest of all about lending his name to rhyming slang. Times, Sunday Times
- In fact they are using an affectionate piece of rhyming slang: boiled is short for boiled bean, VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1
- Cockney rhyming slang
- The terms represent both old and new in the modern lexicon of Cockney rhyming slang.
- Those are Americans to those of you not versed in the poetry of rhyming slang. The Sun
- I always thought it was cockney rhyming slang for the mushy dollop of pasty gloop my disaster-of-a-cook east-end nan served up when I stayed at her house as a kid. In praise of β¦ the Big Fish Fight | Editorial
- He would use rhyming slang for words that were slang already.