Wooden Overcoat

Cockney rhyming slang for a coffin.

"I love my house so much, the only way I will leave is wearing a wooden overcoat."

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So Switzerland

Imagine an arguement between friends, two of your mates are going at each other nine to the dozen except you are stuck in the middle trying to act as a mediator.

Like Switzerland YOU are a neutral country.

Ant told Dave that he wasn't in the band anymore and Mike and Chad were so Switzerland.

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Duke of Kent

Cockney Rhyming slang for Rent, also refers to the landlord.

"I can't go down the Rub a Dub tonight Reg, got the Duke of Kent to pay."

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Tom

Police slang used by the British force, especially by the Metropolitan, to describe a prostitute.

Plural is Toms

I want everyone out there night and day questioning all the Toms, we've got to find Jack before he strikes again.

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Laundry Man

Cockney rhyming slang for a man/woman who is a specialist in money laundering.

"I can't go out tonight, I gotta see the Laundry Man run a few reddies through the washing machine."

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Blewish

A Black person who is Jewish, so specified in Anthony Kiedis's book Scar Tissue.

Carlton told me his parents were Jewish, since then everyone calls him Blewish.

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Daylight Dodger

A Daylight Dodger is someone who goes on holiday, normally to a sunny region and returns from there without a tan.

They come back as pale as they left.

Hey look at Joe, he's just come back from the Med. He's such a Daylight Dodger.