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ten pounds (thanks N Shipperley). The ten pound meaning of cock and hen is 20th century rhyming slang. Cock and hen - also cockerel and hen - has carried the rhyming slang meaning for the number ten for longer. Its transfer to ten pounds logically grew more popular through the inflationary 1900s as the ten pound amount and banknote became more common currency in people's wages and wallets, and therefore language. Cock and hen also gave raise to the variations cockeren, cockeren and hen, hen, and the natural rhyming slang short version, cock - all meaning ten pounds.
Bill and Ben is London Cockney rhyming slang for pen.
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Ears. Look at the size of 'is ten speeds
ten shillings (1/-), backslang from the 1800s (from 'ten gen').
A male or female, who is maximally sexually attractive; the perfect man or woman.[On a scale of one to ten, that one was a ten.].
- Gen means information. If you have the gen then you know what is going on.
Ten commandments is British slang for a wife's fingers.
Dirty Den is London Cockney rhyming slang for pen.
Ten to two is London Cockney rhyming slang for a Jew.
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Big Ben is London Cockney rhyming slang for ten pounds sterling. Big Ben was old London Cockney rhyming slang for ten shillings.
Ten shillings
ten shillings (10/-), backslang, see gen net.
Cock and hen is London Cockney rhyming slang for pen.Cock and hen is London Cockney rhyming slang for ten (especially ten pounds sterling).
Ten is American slang for a superb specimen.Ten is Jamaican slang for an attractive woman (ten out of ten).
Gen means information. If you have the gen then you know what is going on.
Cockerel and hen is London Cockney rhyming slang for ten.
Ten to twos is British slang for sticking out feet.
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n.
A captain or commander of ten thousand men.
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A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.
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A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball.
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The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.
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Five times ten; as, fifty men.
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Ten and one added; as, eleven men.
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The unit of value and account in Japan. Since Japan's adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, the value of the yen has been about 50 cents. The yen is equal to 100 sen.
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A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage.
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Any infusion or decoction, especially when made of the dried leaves of plants; as, sage tea; chamomile tea; catnip tea.
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A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.
a.
Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.
v. t.
To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.
v. i.
To take or drink tea.
n.
Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.
v. i.
To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
v. t.
To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
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A body of ten men in authority.
a. & adv.
In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.
n. & v.
See 1st and 2d Teen.
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