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rhyming slang

NOUN
  1. 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 (β€˜He's gone down with a touch of rising damp) does him no favours.’
  • 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 … the Big Fish Fight | Editorial
  • He would use rhyming slang for words that were slang already.
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