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n. A cant used by Cockneys in which a word or phrase is replaced by a rhyme word or phrase, this word or phrase then often being abbreviated to its first syllable or syllables, or its first word. The word chosen as the rhyme often shares attributes of the word that it replaces.
Usage examples of "cockney rhyming slang".
He spoke his own sort of cockney rhyming slang, and indeed I often thought he made most of it up himself, but I was used to it by that time.
I've been studying Cockney rhyming slang until I speak it in my dreams at night.
The word 'butchers' meant 'look' by virtue of Cockney rhyming slang.
There were a dozen men and three women around the fire, rough, dangerous, jabbering in the Cockney rhyming slang of the jackals.
There were a dozen men and three women around the fire, rough, dangerous, jabbering in the cockney rhyming slang of the jackals.