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Definition of Rhyming slang
1. Noun. Slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component. "Cockney rhyming slang"
Definition of Rhyming slang
1. Noun. Any system of slang in which a word is replaced with a phrase that rhymes with it; the rhyming word often being dropped. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhyming Slang
Literary usage of Rhyming slang
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"This cant, which has nothing to do with that spoken by the costermongers, is
known in Seven Dials and elsewhere as the " rhyming slang," or the substitution ..."
2. The Slang Dictionary: Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast by John Camden Hotten (1872)
"This Cant, which has nothing to do with that spoken by the costermongers, is
known in Seven Dials and elsewhere as the rhyming slang, or the substitution of ..."
3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Charing Cross (rhyming slang), horse. Chariot-buzzing (thieves), picking ...
Charley Prescot (rhyming slang), a waistcoat. Charlie (old), a name for a ..."
4. Dining and Its Amenities by John William Severin Gouley (1907)
"... beggars, thieves, street venders, and mountebanks in England and in the United
States use back slang, rhyming slang, recitative cant, and patter. ..."
5. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"rhyming slang for "money." (See CHIVY.) Sugared Words. Sweet, flattering words.
When sugar was first imported into Europe it was a very great dainty. ..."
6. A History of Vagrants and Vagrancy, and Beggars and Begging by Charles James Ribton-Turner (1887)
"In addition to thia there are also varieties of cant known as Back Slang, Centre
Slang, and rhyming slang. Back slang consists in pronouncing words as they ..."
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