Vera Lynn

Vera Lynn
I
Australian Slang
1. chin;
2. gin
II
Cockney Rhyming Slang
1. Skin (cigarette paper)
Got any vera's?
2. Gin
I'll have one more Vera before I hit the frog and toad.

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  • Vera (Lynn) * — Noun. 1. Gin. 2. Chin. 3. A skin, a cigarette paper. E.g. Buy me some veras and 10 Marlboro Light when you pass the newsagents. * All senses from cockney rhyming slang. Vera Lynn, popular British singer best remembered for her songs during WWII …   English slang and colloquialisms

  • Vera (Lynn) * — Noun. 1. Gin. 2. Chin. 3. A skin, a cigarette paper. E.g. Buy me some veras and 10 Marlboro Light when you pass the newsagents. * All senses from cockney rhyming slang. Vera Lynn, popular British singer best remembered for her songs during WWII …   English slang and colloquialisms

  • Vera Lynn — ➡ Lynn (II) * * * …   Universalium

  • Vera Lynn — 1. chin; 2. gin …   Dictionary of Australian slang

  • Vera Lynn — Sangerinde …   Danske encyklopædi

  • Vera (Lynn) — n British (a glass of) gin. Rhyming slang based on the name of the patriotic wartime singer, still heard in the 1990s, often in conjunc tion with supersonic. Compare Veras …   Contemporary slang

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