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Cockney Rhyming Slang
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Raleigh Chopper
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Slaughter is house as in slaughter house I think, but a home is also a drum but I know not why. This is still all from Minder.
Jacobs is one of my favourites, Jacobs crackers , knackers
How much does a Cockney spend on shampoo?
Paaaan ten
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Sorry but the original I believe is bricks, as in bricks and mortar. The only one that I have heard a few times is lamb, as in lamb to the slaughter
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Drum is not rhyming slang
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Up the deaf and dumb
One also used chez kumquat though doesn't take much to make my girlfriend's eyes water.
A particular favourite of mine is a "commodore". As in, "How much is that squire?". "Well normally guv i'd charge a score, but to you, a commodore". It means 15 quid because it's "three times a lady". As in Lady Godiva, fiver.
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Why does Terry use both of these when he asks Arfur to drop him off at his flat.
He said meet me at my slaughter or drop me off at my drum
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Gianluca
Vialli - Charlie.
Also shortened it in the past as in "I got through three grams of 'Luca last night".
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All I know it is something to do with Burglary believe it or not, they used to refer to it as doing a drum
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In Football Factory one of the characters, whilst in the midst of an argument, says to the other fellow"'don't go and get all lemon". What on earth does that mean?
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Lemon tart - smart
Kumquat
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Slaughter was slang in the east end for somewhere where a crime was committed and usually where stolen goods were traded. Hence Arthur's use of it in Minder to refer to his lock up.
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Smart, my dad once said it when I back chatted him followed by a clip round the ear.
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Probably I really do not know, I have heard lamb to the slaughter to mean daughter but do not think it is original as I said.
Has anyone mentioned "whistle" yet?
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"Why ya talk to me in that muggy little rhyming slang, Zeb-er-f@cking-dee?"
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I think the Minder one is not even rhyming slang. Just that in the east end a slaughterhouse was a term for a place where dodgy stuff was done and it was often shortened to slaughter. Probably the daughter one is correct but just a different use.
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Going to get off my canister tonight !
Head and canister ?? Don't get it
Head and canister ?? Don't get it
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I think that the actual "cockney" one is bricks as in bricks and mortar, the same as Eartha kitt is not really rhyming slang for s**t, is it actually Tom Titt
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Its not, its lemon dash =flash