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Dropping the Soap

why cockney wanker'comedian' Michael Barrymore wishes he'd gone to jail after that bloke drowned in his swimming pool.
awight! I couldn't 'ardly walk after Dropping the Soap in G wing sharrers (trans: showers), guvnah, leave it aht, do what, you're 'aving a laugh!
by mike read August 13, 2003
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jam bands

musical groups with a lyrical disposition towards preserves of all kinds.
by mike read August 7, 2003
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double entendre

lit. from the French meaning 'double meaning.' a phrase or saying that has another connotation apart from the literal, almost always sexual in nature. A staple of the British 'carry on' series of films of thr 1960s and 70s, and the most excellent 'Bottom' TV show of the early 90s on the BBC
Eddie: Hang on, hang on hang on hang on. I've got your real present here.
Richie: It's a piece of paper. It is a small piece of paper.
Eddie: Read it.
Richie: "Madame Swish, three-thirty." Oh! Eddie! You haven't? Oh, what a pal you are. "Madame Swish". Ooh-err! Hohh, God, at last I'm really going to do it. And on my birthday as well! Ohhhggh, I wonder what she's like?
Eddie: She's a dead cert mate, a real stayer.
Richie:Really?
Eddie:Yeah, she'll come first.
Richie: What, before me? Good grief, that's quick. So she'll think I'm
great! Oh, what a pal you are! And it's all paid for?
Eddie: Um, not exactly, I need a tenner.
Richie: A tenner. Right. That's quite cheap, isn't it?
Eddie: Er, well, no, in that case it's a tenner each way.
Richie: Well, how many ways are there?
Eddie: Well, you'll come first, second or third, won't you?
Richie: Well how many people are going to be there?
Eddie: Well, a few thousand.
Richie: What?
Eddie: Well it's Kempton.
Richie:Kempton? I can't get down to Kempton by three-thirty!
Eddie: You don't have to mate, it'll be on the telly!
Richie: They're going to televise it? Well what if my auntie's watching?
Eddie: Well what's illegal about betting on a horse?
Richie: A horse?
Eddie: Yeah.
Richie: Madame Swish is, is, is a horse?
Eddie: Yeah! Well what did you think it was?
Richie: Oh no, nothing, nothing. Just checking.
Eddie:I have given you a red hot tip.
Richie: (looks at his crotch) I know, and there's nothing I can do about it now, is there!
by Mike Read April 17, 2004
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Cockney Wanker

Someone from London, usually second hand car salesmen, who read the sun newspaper, call all women " dawlin' " (trans: darling) and general ponce about the place like they are something special.
Cor Blimey Guvnah, I'm a cockney wanker, and no mistake!
by Mike Read July 27, 2003
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knees up mother brown

national anthem of cockneyland
aind, knees ap muvva brahn, etc
by mike read August 7, 2003
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cor blimey

cor blimey arthur, aren't you garring (trans: going) dahn va car lot?
by mike read August 7, 2003
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eastender

either a crap soap opera about cockney wanker or the real life place where true cockey waners live
everyone's talking about it- yeah they are saying thank fuck I don't live in the east end like these tossers.
by mike read August 7, 2003
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