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rhyming slang

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rhy·ming slang (rmng)
n.
Slang in which a word is replaced by a word or phrase that rhymes with it, as kiss by hit or miss.
rhyming slang
n
slang in which a word is replaced by another word or phrase that rhymes with it; for example, apples and pears meaning stairs
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Noun1.rhyming slang - slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component; "Cockney rhyming slang"
jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
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Summary: An ATM operator has introduced Cockney rhyming slang to a number of its cash machines in east London.
Please enter your Huckleberry Finn by Independent Television News Limited (ITN)
Hancock noted how an ATM operator introduced Cockney rhyming slang to a number of its cash machines in east London earlier this week.
ATM is bostin' by Birmingham Mail (England)
But, finally, we have what we have been crying out for, a cash machine that speaks in Cockney rhyming slang.
COCKNEY CASH IS PICCADILLY by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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