RHYMING SLANG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rhyming slang mean? 

• RHYMING SLANG (noun)
  The noun RHYMING SLANG has 1 sense:

1. slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component

  Familiarity information: RHYMING SLANG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHYMING SLANG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

Cockney rhyming slang

Hypernyms ("rhyming slang" is a kind of...):

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))