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dog and bone

noun

  1. slang:rhyming.
    a telephone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Either way, it’s a matter of dog and bone: Each of you is just a different dog with a different bone.

Either way, it’s a matter of dog and bone: Each of you is just a different dog with a different bone.

For one night only villagers were able to enjoy a pint at the Dog and Bone.

From BBC

Alright, so I was about to write an article about Windows 10 when I realised I was proper hank marvin, so I got on the dog and bone and belled up my mate Azza.

Another, in Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, became a temporary pub called - with a nod to cockney rhyming slang - the Dog and Bone in 2011 in protest at another venue, the Plough, closing.

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