Cockney rhyming slang

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"Rhyming slang is a form of slang in which a word is replaced by a rhyming word, typically the second word of a two-word phrase (so stairs becomes "apples and pears"). The second word is then often dropped entirely ("I'm going up the apples"), meaning that the association of the original word to the rhyming phrase is not obvious to the uninitiated. For example: "Sherman" for an American (Sherman tank = Yank),1 or "seppo" for an American (seppo = septic tank = Yank)."

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Rhyming Slang. (2009). In Wikipedia Web. Retrieved Aug 15, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang