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  • noun slang Names given to a pair of companions, usually male, of whom one is tall and the other short.
  • adjective Cockney rhyming slang, comparable Deaf.

Etymologies

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From characters in a comic strip by U.S. cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher, first published in 1908.

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