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jam roll
noun- unemployment benefit; any government office from which it is administrated UK, 1992
Rhyming slang for THE DOLE- I just go’a sort my jam roll. Nood signin’? — Nick Barlay, Curvy Lovebox, p. 83, 1997
- a fool; a despised person UK
Rhyming slang for ARSEHOLE- Anyone with any sense knows that all jazz musicians are jam rolls. — Bodmin Dark, Dirty Cockney Rhyming Slang, 2003
- parole UK, 1995
Rhyming slang. Shortened to “jam”. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 66, 1996
- Getting a five, and with a drop of jam-roll getting out in three, is as much as I can get my head round[.] — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 241, 2000
- “I saved the guy’s life,” he insists, brandishing the card under uninterested noses. “Surely that makes jam worth hoping for?” — The Guardian, 2 March 2000: “A life inside”
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