(England, slang) A contemptible or uncool person quotations ▼
not paying attention or tending to business; negligent: You must have been out to lunch when you wrote that weird report.
Drum and Bass is Cockney slang for Place.
The word drum was originally used to describe a room or prison cell or even a road. It then became confined to only mean the home. Finally this was rhymed with Drum and Bass giving its modern interpretation.
"Do me a favour" (rhyming with "lemon flavour") in Cockney rhyming slang.
'Man' in cockney rhyming slang, heard almost exclusively in the phrase 'my old pot and pan', meaning one's husband ... Introduction.
Trouble and Strife is cockney rhyming slang for wife.
To snog is to kiss. A teenage couple might snog throughout an entire two hour movie. The verb snog is British slang for kiss, cuddle, or make out.
Raspberry ripple is Cockney rhyming slang for nipple and cripple.
"Tumble down the sink" (drink)
A fifty-dollar note is also known colloquially as a "pineapple" or the "Big Pineapple" because of its yellow colour.
Kettle and hob = watch
The term means watch, which stemmed from a 'fob' watch which was a pocket watch attached to the body with a small chain. The kettle used to boil on the hob of a stove…
china plate – mate (friend)
. 'Hiya' or 'Hey up' – these informal greetings both mean 'hello' and are especially popular in the north of England.
liquid lunch (plural liquid lunches) (informal) The consumption of alcohol with no (or little) food at lunchtime.
to make a move on somone else's girlfriend. Compare lunch cutter. Contributor's comments: to be beaten to a particular person to date etc.; to be whiteanted; to have a prospective beau taken away from yourself: "He cut my lunch."
Lunch lady, in Canada and the US, is a term for a woman who cooks and serves food in a school cafeteria. The equivalent term in the United Kingdom is dinner lady.
Khazi. Another slightly dated alternative word to the toilet, 'khazi' (also spelt karzy, kharsie or carzey) is derived from the low Cockney word 'carsey', meaning a privy. It has its roots in the nineteenth century, but gained popular usage during the twentieth century.
It was pony and trap, crap. (Cockney rhyming slang) Crap; rubbish, nonsense. (Cockney rhyming slang) Excrement; the act of defecation.
Bump. C or Big C.
The term "raspberry" derives from the Cockney rhyming slang "raspberry tart" for "fart" (that is, "blowing a fart").
(Cockney rhyming slang) Knickers.
Plum = idiot “You're a plum!”, “Don't be a plum!”
Bubble Bath – Laugh
Used more in a derisive, irritated and threatening tone than when cockneys are having fun, 'You're having a bubble mate, meaning, 'You're having a laugh,' or 'You must be joking!' is something said day to day in East London and beyond when someone can't believe the cheek of you.
Noun. The kissing crust is the edge on a loaf of bread where it has touched another loaf in baking.
In addition, Frank is fondly remembered for his unique style of cockney slang. A term "dry slap" that Reid introduced into the character's dialogue has transitioned, and is now utilised in British culture as a noun to describe a punch.