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cockney rhyming slang 

Cockney rhyming slang is a form of English slang which originated in the East End of London. Many of its expressions have passed into common language, and the creation of new ones is no longer restricted to Cockneys.
Rhyming slang developed as a way of obscuring the meaning of sentences to those who did not understand the slang, though it remains a matter of speculation whether this was a linguistic accident, or whether it was developed intentionally to assist criminals or to maintain a particular community.
Rhyming slang works by replacing the word to be obscured with the first word of a phrase that rhymes with that word. For instance, "face" would be replaced by "boat", because face rhymes with "boat race". Similarly "feet" becomes "plates" ("plates of meat"), and "money" is "bread" (a very common usage, from "bread and honey"). Sometimes the full phrase is used, for example "Currant Bun" to mean "The Sun" (often referring to the British Tabloid Newspaper of that name). There is no hard and fast rule for this, and you just have to know whether a particular expression is always shortened, never shortened, or can be used either way.
cockney rhyming slang by Santi July 28, 2005
Literally, a person born within earshot of the bells of St Mary-le-Bow church in what is now the City of London. However, technically speaking there can be no cockneys born after 1945 since the bells were destroyed by German bombs during WWII.

Today the term has expanded to encompass not only those from East London specifically but from London in general. The latter tends to be attributed by non-Londoners, stemming from their ignorance of the true meaning of the word.
cockney by hux May 31, 2003

Wet Cockney Fiddler 

Being under the thumb of a girlfriend.
She’s bossing him around, he’s such a wet cockney fiddler.
Wet Cockney Fiddler by Hugh Horace January 8, 2018

Cockney neck

When you have been speaking to much cockney and it does your neck in.
Nick: "do you have any idea why jack is wearing that ridiculous neck brace?"

Jane: "the doctor said he has to wear it after his trip to croydon. He's got a nasty case of cockney neck."
Cockney neck by roflmaonaze May 6, 2010

cockney cock punch 

a punch to the male genitalia delivered by someone with a cockney accent. Usually preformed when you are loosing a fight and in a act of desperation. The fist should be balled up with the middle fingers knuckle slight more foreward the usual. Dont worry abotu hurting your hand, you are punching something relativley soft.
Why i oughta give him the old cockney cock punch!
cockney cock punch by Matt Abrams January 12, 2008
Person from the East End of London. Supposedly 'born with the sound of bow-bells'. When I used to live in Houghton Regis there were some next door, and they talked and acted nothing like the ones in Eastenders (most of whom are posh actors trying to sound working class). And let's be honest, a lot of TV producers are lovies and darlings who seem to think working class people (especially cockneys) are automatically criminals. Alright, I'm sure there are criminals in the East End. But thanks to a succession of useless, soft-head, corrupt UK governments, there are bloody villains everywhere you go in Britain. Counties around the south of England tend of be full of 'mockneys' - total arseholes who think putting on a fake cockney accent makes them sound hard (but don't tell their mummies).
Mo Slater has stolen a baby's cot and is now selling it like the heartless criminal she is. Egads! You nasty evil cockney!

Oh, go smell the coffee, BBC.
cockney by StormSworder August 11, 2006
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