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rhubarb
noun- nonsense UK, 1963
From its use by actors as an “unintelligible murmur”. - [T]he acres of rhubarb served up to long-suffering Guardian readers by this reporter[.] — The Guardian, 9 September 2002
- said repeatedly by muttering actors to give the impression of background conversations; hence, spoken nonsense UK, 1934
Theatre slang. - — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
- a fight; an uproar; a riot US, 1943
- — Parke Cummings, Dictionary of Baseball, p. 44, 1950
- “It was the only time in my life,” remembered an anonymous chap who took part in the rhubarb, “that I was ever kicked in the head by a man spinning in the air above me.” — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 254, 1956
- an advance of wages, a loan; as “rhubarbs”: a membership subscription UK, 1929
Rhyming slang, pronounced “roobub”, for SUB - — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992
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