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currant bun
noun- a nun UK
Glasgow rhyming slang. - — Michael Munro, The Complete Patter, 1996
- the sun UK, 1938
Rhyming slang. Sometimes shortened to “currant.” - Cor, the currant [sun]’s ‘ot today[.] — The Sweeney, p. 6, 1976
- [T]he Empire, on which the currant bun never sets[.] — Ronnie Barker, Fletcher’s Book of Rhyming Slang, p. 39, 1979
▶ on the currant bun
on the run UK
Rhyming slang, in underworld and police use.- — John Gosling, The Ghost Squad, 1959
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