rhyming slang 

1) The use of a rhyming word in the place of the original word to obscure the meaning.
2)The chaotic blur that is the soul of the Cockney dialect.

"Take a butcher's" (butcher's hook = look)
Daisies (shoes) (daisy roots = boots).
"She's a pretty twist" (twist and twirl = girl)
"He's ginger" (ginger beer = queer / homosexual. Derogatory unless uttered by fellow travellers)
"I took the lift to the apples"(apples and pears = upstairs, though not even pensioners use that phrase anymore)

rhyming slang by MAC-Gyver May 27, 2003

rhyming slang 

A system of slang in which words are replaced by rhymes and the second part of the rhyme is dropped. It is most commonly used by cockneys.

Examples of rhyming slang:
Dustbin Lids=Kids
Trouble & Strife=Wife
Plates of Meat=Feet
Apples & Pears=Stairs
Pony & Trap=Crap
Berkeley Hunt=C**t

My trouble sent me to pick up the dustbins from school, and I stepped in a massive pile of pony and trap.

rhyming slang by Bedlamite10 September 23, 2013

rhyming slang 

Generally rhyming slang is a load of old bollocks. In the words of terry pratchett "it is made up to annoy strangers, which is the case with most slangs"

Whoa rhyming slang makes no sense!
prunes (syrup of)=wig
apples and pears=stairs
rubbity-dub=pub
busy bee=general theory of relativity

rhyming slang by Luke September 23, 2005

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.

Examples included in definition.

cockney rhyming slang by Santi July 28, 2005

Cockney Rhyming Slang 

A dialect replacing numerous words with phrases that rhyme with the desired outcome, e.g. Dog and Bone = Phone, Trouble and Strife = Wife, Horse and Carriage = Marrage.
Stems from an area in London.
See Also: rhyming slang

Anyway, I was going off to my Pope in Rome, when the old Trouble and Strife's only gone and left the Horse and Carriage and Cat and Mouse and left me a message next to the Dog and Bone on an Alexander the Great up the Apples and Pairs. She's gone of with another fella with a lot of Poppy Red. Made me so Hit List, you know? So I gos and gets meself a Pigs Ear. Not bothered really, just she dragged her huge Kingdom Come off with my Sue Rider!

Cockney Rhyming Slang by regs_ October 28, 2004

Cockney Rhyming Slang 

A dialect originating in East London which involves substituting short phrases for words. The phrases rhyme with the word that they replace.

"So unless we intend to do this job in Reno, we're in barney...
Barney Rubble...
Trouble!"

-Don Cheadle as Basher in Ocean's Eleven

No one gets his Cockney Rhyming Slang but him.

Cockney Rhyming Slang by VooDooXII August 27, 2006

Harry Potter Rhyming Slang 

A culmination of words, names and phrases from the Harry Potter World that can be used to describe or dictate ordinary everyday occurrences! Kind of the Wizard's alternative to "Cockney Rhyming Slang" just replacing "Cockney" with "Potter"!

Harry Potter Rhyming Slang examples:

Merlin’s Beard - God that’s weird!
Horcrux Snape - For f***’s sake!
That’s Weasley - That was easy!
Hermione Granger - Hello stranger!
Quiddich Quaffle - What a load of waffle!

...Now let’s see them used in situ:

I came out of the house only to see my dog grunting at a squirrel. “Merlin’s Beard!” I exclaimed. Then I noticed that my dog was standing on my favourite flower bed! ‘Horcrux Snape’ I thought to myself, ‘I only just planted those a year ago!’. I yelled at Dozer - my dog - to move his arse kindly off my flowers which he did, promptly. ‘Hmm...That was Weasley’ I thought to myself! Usually it takes longer for Dozer to recognize my mood and oblige my orders! Just then I saw and old friend of mine - Julianne - walking passed the house. “Hermione Granger!” I called out to her but she simply looked at me, puzzled, and said “Quiddich Quaffle!” and thus ended our conversation.

Harry Potter Rhyming Slang by WackyWizard June 27, 2011