BACK SLANG
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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© Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information)
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BACK SLANG. A form of slang used especially in Britain, in which words are spoken or spelt backwards:
yob boy (originally to disguise the word, now used to mean a ‘backward’ boy or lout);
ecilop police, often modified to
slop (
The slops are after you). See
COCKNEY,
PRIVATE LANGUAGE,
REVERSAL,
SHELTA.
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