词组 | almond rocks; almonds; rocks |
释义 | almond rocks; almonds; rocks noun socks UK Rhyming slang, based on a confection popular from the mid-C19, can be presumed therefore to be late C19 in origin. In the mid-C20 it was popularly abbreviated to “almonds”; later use seems to favour “rocks”, i.e. “cotton rocks”. A specialised military variation arising during World War 1 was “army rocks”.
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