ALL meanings of rhyming slang
rhyme slang
R r - noun rhyming slang a form of slang in which a rhyming word or phrase is substituted for the word intended, as Kate and Sidney for steak and kidney or khaki rocks for army socks. 1
- noun rhyming slang a further removal from the original word intended by ellipsis of the rhyming part, as titfer for tit for tat for hat. 1
- uncountable noun rhyming slang Rhyming slang is a spoken informal kind of language in which you do not use the normal word for something, but say a word or phrase that rhymes with it instead. In Cockney rhyming slang, for example, people say 'apples and pears' to mean 'stairs'. 0
- noun rhyming slang slang in which a word is replaced by another word or phrase that rhymes with it; for example, apples and pears meaning stairs 0
- noun rhyming slang a form of language play, esp. as used by cockneys, in which a phrase is substituted for a single word with which the last word of the phrase rhymes (Ex.: trouble and strife used for wife, apples and pears for stairs) 0