Monday, August 10, 2009

Corned beef

Bully beef is north English rhyming slang for deaf.
Bully beef is British military slang for corned beef.
Corned beef is London Cockney rhyming slang for petty thief, brief, chief, fief, keef, leaf, lief, reef, sheaf, bay leaf, belief, debrief, fig leaf, gold leaf, ground beef, lobed leaf, massif, motif, relief, roast beef, scale leaf, tea leaf

(http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Corned+Beef&offset=0 & http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_rhymes_with_grief)

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