Meaning Of The Word Rhyming slang

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Rhyming slang Meaning

Rhyming slang Definition
Rhyming slang Definition

What's The Definition Of Rhyming slang?

rhyming slang
uncountable noun: Rhyming slang is a spoken informal kind of language in which you do not use the normal word for something, but say a word or phrase that rhymes with it instead. In Cockney rhyming slang, for example, people say 'apples and pears' to mean 'stairs'.

rhyming slang in American English
a form of language play, esp. as used by cockneys, in which a phrase is substituted for a single word with which the last word of the phrase rhymes (Ex.: trouble and strife used for wife, apples and pears for stairs)
noun: a form of slang in which a rhyming word or phrase is substituted for the word intended, as Kate and Sidney for steak and kidney or khaki rocks for army socks

rhyming slang in British English
noun: 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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