earl of Cork n.2
1. a talk.
AS XXI:1 Feb. 46: duke of cork. A talk; a walk. (English.) Agreed as English, but always Earl of Cork. This corresponds to an actual title in the British peerage, held by a well-known and definitely eccentric noble man during the period (1870–1890) of the maximum growth of rhyming slang. | ‘Some Notes on Rhyming Argot’ in||
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2. a walk.
see sense 1. |