you and me n.
1. tea.
![]() | Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 253: The children gave me such words as ‘needle and thread’ for bread, ‘you and me’ for tea, ‘Jim Skinner’ for dinner. | |
![]() | N&Q 12 Ser. IX 346: Cup You and Me. Tea. | |
![]() | Tramp-Royal on the Toby 105: All I could buy was a twopenny bowl of camphor-and-moth and a penny mug of you-and-me. | |
![]() | They Die with Their Boots Clean 129: ‘Gemme a you ’n’ a strike,’ meaning a Cup of You-and-Me and a Slice of Strike-Me-Dead, or bread ’n’ butter. | |
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![]() | Signs of Crime 207: You and me Tea, i.e., the evening meal: ‘I am off for my you and me.’. | |
![]() | Muvver Tongue 32: Throughout the East End ‘you and me’ means tea. |
2. urination, urine [= pee n.1 ].
![]() | Dict. of Rhy. Sl. | |
![]() | Maledicta II:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 117: There are other, more general if less modern and correct, studies of Cockney rhyming slang, though they tend to skirt Tom Tit (’shit’), rattle [and hiss] (’piss’), you and me (’pee’). | |
![]() | Muvver Tongue 42: The other function is a ‘Jimmy Riddle’, a ‘leak’, a ‘you and me’, (rhyming for ‘pee’). | |
![]() | How to Kiss a Crocodile 127: The giant fast bowler was desperate for a ‘you ’n me’ - legs crossed, arms crossed and maybe even his fingers crossed. | |
![]() | Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 you and me: a pee, urinate. |
3. a flea.
![]() | (ref. to 1930s–70s) Coronation Cups and Jam Jars 208: You and me Flea. |
4. (bingo) the number three; occas. 23.
![]() | Cockney Dialect and Sl. 109: 3 = you an’ me. | |
![]() | Wordplay 🌐 3: you and me. | ‘The Bingo Code’|
![]() | (con. 1960s) Silvertown 223: The Walters fall to their cards, frantically marking the numbers as they’re called: two fat ladies, eighty-eight [...] Twenty-three, you and me. |
5. (Aus.) a pea.
![]() | ‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xliii 11/3: you and mes: Vegetable peas. |