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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