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		Jackypot on Oct 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cockney Rhyming Slang History There is 'Sherman' for an American which is Sherman Tank -> Yank. So that can only be WW2 onwards. And 'Ruby' for curry (Ruby Murray) is from the fifties. Those are the most recent I can think of.

gerdesj on Oct 13, 2020 [–]

Septic is the usual one for Yank. Sherman is too polite to be true. Besides, septics have been around far longer than WWII.

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