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Rory O'More; rory noun- a floor UK, 1857
Rhyming slang, on the name of a legendary Irish rebel. The earliest of three uses for the rhyme; however, the second sense, “a whore” is obsolete. - Main employment for this is in the sense of being destitute, e.g., “on the Rory”. — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, p. 162, 1992
- a door UK, 1892
Rhyming slang, on the name of a legendary Irish rebel. This is the only sense of the word also recorded in the US, where it is sometimes misspelt Rory O’Moore. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 98, 1996
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