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Perhaps the most infamous of all the British slang, Cockney Rhyming Slang is a richly
complicated, in-the-know type of language. It is said that slang was originally developed by the thieves of London,
so that they could communicate without the bobbies understanding what they were saying.
And they were most definitely successful. With the familiar words showing up in unlikely
places in a sentence, the uninitiated can only shake their head in bewilderment.
In Cockney Rhyming Slang, a word is represented by a phrase that ends in a rhyme. For
example, the word mate rhymes with china plate. So the phrase china plate represents mate. However, in spoken slang,
only the beginning of the phrase would remain. So the word china means mate. Simple right?
More Cockney Rhyming Slang 
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