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Want to practice your Rhyming Slang? Here's a brief introduction. There are two main kinds of cant (that I know of): rhyming slang, which is merely that, and word-association rhyming slang. Patricia Veryan's Had We Never Loved and the characters of Enoch Tummet and Amy Consett both used rhyming cant. Dick Francis' novel Driving Force also has a character who uses rhyming cant. An example of word association rhyming cant: Take a butcher's at them trucks. There's some lone rangers on the bottom - big enough for carpets, I suppose. Could be boil and bubble if some tealeaf half-inched the trucks. Oh, and there's some nuns in the pit, silent as the wash and crawling with five. I'll clean it up and we'll get Poland; can't hammer with his jeckyll. An example of normal rhyming cant: After work last night, I decided to stop at the boozer for a tumble down the sink in honor of the cows-&-kisses' birthday. Well, I had too much jack dandy, spent all my bess and honey and came to the top of Rome elephant's trunk, and hearts of oak to boot! The trouble and strife was angry, the God-forbids wailing and it all hurt my lump of lead. So I ran out of the birch broom, down the apples and pears, titfa in German band and walked until my plates of meat began to swell in my piccolo and flutes. And you know what? I ended up sleeping in the lean and lurch! Rhyming Cant Meaning butcher's hook look lone rangers strangers carpets and rugs drugs boil and bubble trouble tealeaf thief half-inched pinched nuns and habits rabbits wash and shave grave five, six ticks Poland and Russia Usher hammer and nail pail Jeckyll and Hyde pride tumble down the sink drink cows and kisses missus Jack dandy brandy bees and honey money top of Rome home elephant's trunk drunk hearts of Oak broke trouble and strife wife God-forbids kids lump of lead head birch broom room apples and pears stairs tit for tat hat German band hand plates of meat feet piccolo and flutes boots lean and lurch church