Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. Any system of slang in which a word is replaced with a phrase that rhymes with it; the rhyming word often being dropped.
WordNet
n. slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component; "Cockney rhyming slang"
Wikipedia
Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language that utilizes rhyme. It is especially prevalent in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It started in the early 19th century in the East End of London; hence its alternate name, Cockney rhyming slang. In America, it is used in prisons where it is known as Australian rhyming slang.
The construction of rhyming slang involves replacing a common word with a phrase of two or three words, the last of which rhymes with the original word; then, in almost all cases, it involves omitting, from the end of the phrase, the secondary rhyming word (which is thereafter implied), in a process called hemiteleia, making the origin and meaning of the phrase elusive to listeners not in the know.
Usage examples of "rhyming slang".
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.
His rhyming slang hadn't seriously mattered before this, but now it was infuriating.
The Dimwell Street rhyming slang is probably unique in that it does not, in fact, rhyme.
To his teenage years, the Blue Triangle Club and Sandra of the rhyming slang.
Originally rhyming slang had been a means by which East End neighbours could talk to one another without making sense to the law or to outsiders.
The acknowledged jail connoisseur was Ronnie, a cockney who had been in so many foreign jails that he spoke fluent rhyming slang in several languages.
Whole word factories turn out new rhyming slang and saucy street characters are trained on council grants.