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bushel noun- in trucking, a load of half a ton US
- — Wayne Floyd, Jason’s Authentic Dictionary of CB Slang, p. 11, 1976
- the neck, the throat UK
The full form is “bushel and peck”. Rhyming slang, based on imperial units of volume; first recorded in Songs and Slang of the British Soldier, John Brophy and Eric Partridge, 1930. - [B]eing too poor to purchase any Cape of Good Hope, his bushel and peck [the neck] was extremely two-thirty [dirty]. — Ronnie Barker, Fletcher’s Book of Rhyming Slang, p. 25, 1979
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