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Cockney Rhyming Slang

English to Cockney letter S

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Sack Tin Tack
Got the tin tack this morning.

Saloon Bar Balloon Car

Sandals Roman Candles
Why are you wearing those Romans?

Sargy (Sargeant) Onion Bhaji
Meet our new bhaji

Sarnie Georgio Armani
Poppin' out for a quick Georgio Armani

Sarnie (Sandwich) Reg Varney
Alternatives
Oi, get us a Bacon Reg.

Sauce Rocking Horse
Alternatives
I'd like some Rocking Horse on my beef

Sauce Rocking Horse
Alternatives

Sauce Dead Horse

Sauce Inspector Morse
Got any Inspector?

Sauce Air Force
Do you wan't any Air Force on yer chips luv?

Saw Bear's Paw

Say so Cocoa

Scar Mars Bar

Scarf Centre Half
It's a bit taters I'll wear my centre half

Scary Mariah Carey

School Jah Rule
I'm quittin Jah cos it's a James Hunt

Score Hampden Roar
You know the Hampden

Score Bobby Moore
Alternatives

Score Ali McGraw
What's the Ali mate?

Score Jude Law
What's the Jude Law ?

Score Ronald de Boer
Alternatives
Gimme a ronald de boer

Score (£20) Apple Core

Score (£20) Bobby Moore
Alternatives
'it cost me a bobby moore'

Score (£20) Dudley Moore

Scotch (whiskey) Gold Watch
Alternatives

Scotch (whiskey) Gold Watch
Alternatives
Fancy a gold watch, before you go?

Scotch (whiskey) Pocket Watch

Scotch (whiskey) Pimple and Blotch

Scouts Brussels Sprouts

Sea Housemaid's Knee

See ya' later Spanish Waiter
Spanish Waiter darlin!

See you later Baked Potata

See you Later Baked Potato

Seen Pearly Queen

Sense Eighteen Pence

Shabby Westminster Abbey

Shag Zig and Zag
Any chance of a Zig and Zag?

Shag Melvyn Bragg

Shakes Hatti Jaques

Shaky Currant Cakey

Shambles Jakki Brambles

Shark Noah's Ark
Alternatives

Shave Mexican Wave
I am away to have a shower and a Mexican

Shave Ocean Wave

Shave Rant an Rave
When I wake up I have a Rant an Rave

Shave Dig in the grave
Alternatives

Shave Dig in the Grave
Alternatives
I'm going for a Dig in the Grave.

Shave Chas and Dave

Shave All Night Rave

Shilling Able and Willing
'Ere mate I'm skint, lend us an Able

Shilling Thomas Tilling

Shingles Mandy Dingles
How are your Mandy Dingles?

Ship 'Apenny Dip

Shirt Uncle Bert

Shocker Barry Crocker

Shocker Constantino Rocca

Shop Cheggers Plays Pop

Shop Bottle of Pop
Wat u gettin from the Bottle.

Shop Lollipop

Shoulders Noddy Holders
I've a right pain in me Noddy Holders !

Shout Brussel Sprout
Alternatives

Shout (round) Wally Grout

Shovel Lord Lovell

Shower Austin Power
Just jumping in the Austin

Shower Blackpool Tower
I'm going for a Blackpool.

Shower David Gower

Shower Eiffel Tower

Shower Fawlty Tower
I'll just have a Fawlty Tower

Shut Jabba the Hutt

Silly Harry and Billy
Stupid

Silly Daffadown Dilly

Silly Piccadilly

Silly Uncle Willy

Single Mandy Dingle
Is that bird still mandy dingle?

Sister Skin and Blister

Sister Sock and Blister

Six (in bingo) Chop Sticks

Sixty six Clickety Click

Skin (cigarette paper) Vera Lynn
Alternatives

Skint Peppermint

Skint Polo Mint
Alternatives
Cant afford it im Polo

Skint Harry Flint
I'm a bit 'Arry at the moment

Skint Jackie Flint
Would join you, but I'm Jackie Flint

Skint (broke) Boracic Lint
Can't come out tonight, I'm boracic!

Skint (broke) Bernie Flint

Skint (broke) Murray-Mint

Skint (broke) Larry Flint
I'm Larry Flint

Skive Duck and Dive
Alternatives
Not going into work today. I'm Ducking and Diving.

Skiver Angus MacGyver
you're a right Angus MacGyver

Skiver Pearl Diver
He's only pearl divin'

Skoda Whiskey and Soda
Alternatives

Skull Jethro (Tull)
I bust an Aristostle over his Jethro

Slash Arthur Ash
Going for a quick Arthur

Slash (Urinate) Alex Nash

Slash (urinate) Barry Nash
I'm going to burst if I don't go for a Barry…

Slash (urinate) Charlie Nash

Slash (urinate) Bangers and Mash
Alternatives

Slash (urinate) Johhny Cash
Alternatives
I'm busting for a Johnny Cash

Slash (urinate) Johnny Cash

Slash (urinate) Eye Lash
Rack 'em up again, I'm just off for an Eye Lash.

Slash (urinate) Frazer Nash

Slash (urinate) Sausage and Mash
Alternatives
Just going for sausage and mash

Slash (urinate) Pat Cash
Just goin' for a pat cash

Slash (urinate) Pie and Mash
Alternatives
Gotta take a pie and mash

Slash (urinate) Lemon and Dash

Slash (urinate) Mark Ramprakash

Slash; to urinate Stock Market Crash
Excuse me while I nip off for a quick Stock Market

Slaughtered Son and Daughter'd

Sleep Sooty And Sweep
I could do with some Soot.

Sleep Bo-Peep

Sleep Bo Peep

Slide Bonnie and Clyde
Alternatives
Mum, can I go to the Bonnie?

Slippers Chicken Dippers

Slippers Big Dippers

Slippers Eggs and Kippers
Put on your kippers and come here

Slippers Day Trippers

Slippers Jack The Rippers
Oi! Mutt fetch my Jack the Rippers.

Small or ineffectual man (weed) Harris Tweed
He's a bit of an 'Arris

Smashed Pebble Dashed
I got pebble dashed last night

Smell Aunt Nell

Smell (whiff) Jimmy Cliff
Cor, it don't half Jimmy round here.

Smile Roof Tile
Put a Roof on yer Boat.

Smile Sandy Lyle
Alternatives
Put a Sandy on your Boat

Smoke Laugh and a Joke
Just goin out for a laugh mate...

Snake Joe Blake
Alternatives

Sneeze Bread and Cheese

Snide (fake) Bonnie and Clyde
Alternatives
That a Bonnie Ralph Loren or a real one?

Snide (fake) Jekyll and Hyde
Bought a Jekyll watch down the market

Snotter (nose) Harry Potter
That geezer's got an 'arry like concorde !

Snout (cigarette) In and Out
Alternatives

Snout (cigarette) Salmon and Trout
Alternatives
I'm having a salmon

Snout (cigarette) Salmon and Trout
Alternatives

Snow Cheryl Crow

Soap Cape of Good Hope

Soap Band of Hope

Soap Faith and Hope

Soap No hope
Can you pass me the no hope?

Sock Teddington Lock
I've lost one of my Teddingtons

Socks Tilbury Docks

Socks Sara cox
Ere fella, you seen me Sara's?

Socks Diamond Rocks
Chuck us me Diamonds.

Socks Hickory Docks

Socks Almond Rocks

Soda Major Loda

Son Bath Bun

Son Currant Bun
Alternatives

Song Ding Dong
Alternatives
Let's all 'av a bit of a ding dong!

Sores Dudley Moore's

Soup Loop the Loop
Alternatives

Soup Loop the Loop
Alternatives
Think I'll have the loop for starters

Sovereign Jimmy O'Goblin

Spanner Elsie Tanner

Spanner Copacabana

Sparko (asleep or unconscious) Donnie Darko
The guy on the floor was totally Donnie Darko'd

Sparrow Bow and Arrow
Alternatives

Specs (specatcles) Gregory Pecks
You've got new Gregory Pecks!

Specs (spectacles) Mikkel Becks

Specs (spectacles) Posh and Becks
Pass us me posh and becks

Spine Lager and Lime
Alternatives

Spliff Scratch ' N ' Sniff

Splinter Alan Minter
Alternatives

Spot Jelly Tot
Thats a wicked jelly tot on your boat

Spot Selina Scott
That's a nasty Selina you've got there

Spot Randolph Scott

Spouse Dangermouse

Spouse Boiler House

Spud Elmer Fudd
Pass the Elmers, please darling

Spuds Roy Hudd's

Spunk Pineapple Chunk
Alternatives
I think I just swallowed some Pineapple Chunks

Spunk Harry Monk
Alternatives

Spunk Harry Monk
Alternatives

Squeal Jellied Eel
Alternatives
Darren you fookin' Jelly

Squitters Gary Glitters
I caught a right does of the Garys

Stab Doner Kebab
Harry got Doner Kebebbed last night

Stairs Dancing Bears

Stairs Daisy Dancers

Stairs Apples and Pears
Up the Apples and Pears to Bedfordshire

Star Lah-Di-Dah
Alternatives

Starbie's (Starbucks) Ken and Barbies

Starbucks Lisa Tarbucks
Let's head for Lisa Tarbucks!

Starved Pear Halved

Starving Lee Marvin

Starving Hank Marvin

State Harry Tate
Alternatives

State Six and Eight

State Two and Eight
Clear up your room - it's a right two and eight!

Steak Sexton Blake
Alternatives

Steak Kate

Steak Joe Blake
Alternatives

Steak Charlie Drake
I'll have a well done Charlie darlin'.

Steak and Kidney Kate and Sydney

Stella (beer) Keith Dellar
I'll have a pint of Keith

Stella (beer) Nelson Mandela

Stella (beer) Paul Weller

Stella (beer) Yuri Geller

Stella (beer) Cinderella
I've been drinkin' Cinderellas all night

Stella (beer) David Mellor

Stench Dame Judy Dench

Stench Judy Dench
Alternatives
Don't go in that toilet there's a right Judy in there

Stew Battle of Waterloo

Sticks (countryside) Pick and Mix
It's ages seen I been out in the pick 'n mix

Still (photograph) Beecham's Pill
Alternatives

Stilsons (Pipe Wrenches) Harold Wilson's

Stink Pen and Ink
That dog of yours pen and inks!

Stinker (bad game) Regi Blinker

Stinking Abraham Lincoln
There's a dead cat in the garden and it's Abraham Lincoln!

Stoned Al Caponed
Are we getting Al Caponed tonight?

Stools April Fools
Alternatives

Story Jackanory

Story Frankie DeTory
What's the Frankie?

Story Morning Glory
Let me tell you a Morning Glory.

Stout (beer) Salmon and Trout
Alternatives

Stranger Queens Park Ranger

Stranger Connaught Ranger

Strangers Glasgow Rangers

Stray Gamma Ray

Streak Dawson's Creek
I remember Erica doing a Dawsons like it was yesterday

Street Field of Wheat
Alternatives

Street Field of Wheat
Alternatives

Street Ain't It A Treat
That's me Lemon down the Ain't It A Treat.

Strides (trousers) Jekyll and Hydes

Stripper Jack the Ripper
Alternatives

Stripper Chicken Dipper
Didn't you know Julie's a Chicken Dipper now?

Strong Annie May Wong
That's a bit Annie May

Strong Ping Pong

Stunner Air Gunner
Cwar! She's a right Air Gunner!

Style Plymouth Argyle
I like ya Plymouth Argyle

Style Sandy Lyle
Alternatives
I like your Sandy Lyle

Style Tate and Lyle

Styled Wet 'n' Wild
I've had my hair wet 'n' wild

Sub Rubber Dub

Sub (pay advance) Rub A Dub

Sugar (Tate and Lyle) Harry Tate
Alternatives

Suit Bag of Fruit

Suit Bowl of Fruit

Suit Piccolo and Flute

Suit Whistle and Flute
Nice new whistle, mate!

Sun Currant Bun
Alternatives

Supper Tommy Tucker
Alternatives

Sure Bobby Moore
Alternatives

Swear Orange and Pear
Don't you orange and pear at me

Swear Lord Mayor
Alternatives

Swear Lord Mayor
Alternatives

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Cockney Rhyming Slang - London's Famous Secret Language
Cockney Rhyming Slang - London's Famous Secret Language