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[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 ‘Flo’s line’ is nine, ‘cockle” is ten.
at cock and hen, n.
[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 ‘Tom and Jerry’ is cherries.
at tom and jerry, n.2
[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 An Aristotle is a bottle.
at aristotle, n.
[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 ‘Bottle of blue’ is two.
at bottle of blue, n.
[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 ‘Boy scouts’ are sprouts.
at boy scouts, n.
[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 “Carpet” means three. That one goes back to years and years ago, when people was given a prison sentence, and if what they got was it was either three months or three years, they got a carpet in the cell and that’s what they used to say. How d’you get on? Oh, I got a carpet. Oh, fuck me, did ya?
at carpet, n.2
[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 The ecrip. Did you hear me say, how’s the ecrip? That’s “price” backwards, so that you didn’t know what I was talking about.
at ecrip, n.
[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 ‘Flo’s line’ is nine, ‘cockle’ is ten.
at Flo’s line, n.
[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 ‘Thgiet’ is ‘eight’ backwards.
at theg gens, n.
[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 Celery is ‘horn root,’ because years ago they thought that celery was an aphrodisiac. And they said it gave you the horn.
at horn root (n.) under horn, n.2
[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 And he said to me, Tom Mix, which is rhyming slang. What’s Tom Mix?
at tom mix, n.
[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 ‘Navigators’ is taters.
at navigator, n.
[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 ‘Ben neves’ is ‘seven’ backwards.
at nevis, n.
[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 ‘Self starters’ is tomatoes.
at self-starter, n.2
[UK] Spitalfields Life 25 Apr. 🌐 With this sign [i.e. a price tag for 2s. 8d.] Paul Gardner [...] eloquently expresses the situation that he and other small independent traders find themselves in. ‘2 & 8’ is rhyming slang for ‘a bit of a state’ .
at two and eight, n.
[UK] Spitalfields Life 18 Jan. 🌐 In those days [i.e. 1960s], people didn’t go on holidays [...] they had what they called ‘beanos,’ pub and work excursions going to Margate or Southend.
at beano, n.1
[UK] Spitalfields Life 12 Feb. 🌐 His brothers ran a second hand shop down the Bethnal Green Rd and a stall in Cheshire St on Sunday. They used to do house clearance, it was called totting.
at tot, v.2
[UK] (con. 1950s) http://spitalfieldslife.com/ 2 Aug. 🌐 His round was Rotherhithe which meant driving through the tunnel [...] One day, we had to go back through ‘the pipe’ as they called the tunnel in Mile End [etc.].
at Pipe, The, n.
[UK] (con. 1950s) http://spitalfieldslife.com/ 2 Aug. 🌐 We had to get the bus to London Bridge, take the train to East Croydon and change to another near Gatwick Airport [...] It was a schlep at seven o’clock in the morning all through the winter.
at schlep, n.2
[UK] Spitalfields Life 24 Apr. 🌐 ‘Barmy Park’ in Bethnal Green (named after the asylum that once stood there).
at barmy, adj.
[UK] Spitalfields Life 16 Oct. 🌐 [T]here was, until recently, a patch of these alleys in the Roman Rd area which was called by the locals ‘the bunk’ because it provided an avenue of escape from the police.
at bunk, v.1
[UK] (con. 1950s) Spitalfields Life 30 May 🌐 Some of the brainier boys went to Shoreditch Central School in Hoxton. You were considered a little bit ‘like that’ if you went to Shoreditch Central, us we went to the original Blackboard Jungle, Pitfield St School.
at like that, adj.
[UK] (con. 1950s) Spitalfields Life 30 May 🌐 Those years that we lived in Northport St were the years of the parties at our house, where people would come out of the pubs, carrying the booze home, having a ‘Moriarty’ as it was known.
at moriarty, n.
[UK] Spitalfields Life 24 Mar. 🌐 She had friends who all knitted and they had bits of wool left over – what you would call ‘cabbage’ - so mum collected all these balls of different coloured wool.
at cabbage, n.1
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