Need help with rhyming slang.

[bmw114]

I have been trying to find out why the word "Drum" means someones house or flat in cockney rhyming slang.
I seam to remember hearing it used in The Sweeney once " They went round and turned his drum over" meaning they burgled his home.
Do we have any cockneys out there that can help?

[Wacky Racer]

bmw114 said:

I have been trying to find out why the word "Drum" means someones house or flat in cockney rhyming slang. I seam to remember hearing it used in The Sweeney once " They went round and turned his drum over" meaning they burgled his home. Do we have any cockneys out there that can help?

Try this, but sorry no mention of "Drum".......http://web.ukonline.co.uk/adam.blake/cockney.htm


btw:- seam is spelt seem..................

[bmw114]

Wacky Racer said:

bmw114 said: I have been trying to find out why the word "Drum" means someones house or flat in cockney rhyming slang. I seam to remember hearing it used in The Sweeney once " They went round and turned his drum over" meaning they burgled his home. Do we have any cockneys out there that can help? Try this, but sorry no mention of "Drum".......http://web.ukonline.co.uk/adam.blake/cockney.htm btw:- seam is spelt seem..................

If i said i caught the a instead of the e would you believe me? well it was worth a try.

[Wacky Racer]

[quote=bmw114 If i said i caught the a instead of the e would you believe me?[/quote]


Of course I would......Simple typing error of course.........

[ZR1cliff]

Drum & Bass = place

[8Pack]

Could've been worse though, could've been his Dram & Glass = ***!

[bmw114]

ZR1cliff said:

Drum & Bass = place

It could be this but i doubt it as the term "Drum and bass" is too modern, there was a film on TV this morning called The wrong arm of the law starring Peter Sellers and Lionel jefferys,Peter Sellers said "here is £200 wages go and get yourself a little drum" and before you ask he did mean a flat, so any more suggestions?

[tinman0]

bmw114 said:

ZR1cliff said: Drum & Bass = place It could be this but i doubt it as the term "Drum and bass" is too modern, there was a film on TV this morning called The wrong arm of the law starring Peter Sellers and Lionel jefferys,Peter Sellers said "here is £200 wages go and get yourself a little drum" and before you ask he did mean a flat, so any more suggestions?

www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/cockney/loan/1230/Drum-and-Bass.aspx

url said:

Place (home). The word "drum" to describe a home came about long before the style of music

[richardlw]

Probably not rhyming slang but just a slang useage with an obscure origin - like pony and monkey for sums of money.

[Hilts]

richardlw said:

Probably not rhyming slang but just a slang useage with an obscure origin - like pony and monkey for sums of money.

I use some of the money terms a lot, monkey , bag and archer.

A monkey is 500 and comes from the time of colonial rule, in India the 500 rupee note had a monkey on it and the army brought the term back. A bag is just a bag of sand, grand.

An Archer is slightly off base, in that is the term for 2000 which was allegedly the amount of money Lord Archer gave to that hooker in the sting.

Yes red drum n' bass - plaice

[daveatcopleigh]

Listed as Underworld Slang/Language of tramps in R.D. Great Encyclopaedic dictionary 1964
Drum.1 House,home,or lodging 2.(tramps) Billy-can;hence,~up, to make tea in a billy-can; ~a gaff,(burglars) to ascertain whether there is anybody in a house,or flat

[Andrew Noakes]

bmw114 said:

there was a film on TV this morning called The wrong arm of the law starring Peter Sellers and Lionel jefferys

Completely O/T but that film has an Aston DB4GT in it - actually two, because the first one blew up during filming...

[bmw114]

Andrew Noakes said:

bmw114 said: there was a film on TV this morning called The wrong arm of the law starring Peter Sellers and Lionel jefferys Completely O/T but that film has an Aston DB4GT in it - actually two, because the first one blew up during filming...

My spelling is terrible, look at Jefferys (Jeffries).
The film "Wrong arm of the law" is on again at 8pm I only saw 10 minutes of it this morning so i`ll watch it again just to see the cars.

[Prof Beard]

Looked up "drum" in Cassell's Dictionary of Slang:

Drum [19th Century +], a house, a home [etymology unknown]

[ZR1cliff]

Some of the latest slang i hear on the cabs makes me have a bubble,terms like "i got a lady codiva(sp) for the last job".

or an "Ayrton senna"

[sputnik]

ZR1cliff said:

Some of the latest slang I hear on the cabs makes me have a bubble...

Should I be bovvered about your sexual orientation...

>> Edited by sputnik on Tuesday 27th December 21:35

[ZR1cliff]

sputnik said:

ZR1cliff said: Some of the latest slang I hear on the cabs makes me have a bubble... Should I be bovvered about your sexual orientation... >> Edited by sputnik on Tuesday 27th December 21:35

Nooooo i only worry bout my sexuality when i dress up

Actually ,Bubble has a couple of meanings lately,some say ..."bubble bath" = Laugh
or "Bubble and Squeak" = Greek

[bouffy]

I still remember (with a mix of amusement and horror) as a broker boldy asked an Aussie temp if he could 'harry on her boat'.

We never told her what it meant - I should imagine it constituted sexual harrassment, as defined on page 1 of our staff HR handbook.

[MilnerR]

Drum and bass = place

That was always my understanding of the phrase......

[NiceCupOfTea]

bouffy said:

I still remember (with a mix of amusement and horror) as a broker boldy asked an Aussie temp if he could 'harry on her boat'. We never told her what it meant - I should imagine it constituted sexual harrassment, as defined on page 1 of our staff HR handbook.

OK, I get boat race = face, but not sure about "harry".

Think I can guess though!