A Cockney Rhyming Slang Dictionary with a bit of 'istory.:-) Some of his examples remind me of a story me neice tells: her new roommate at universtiy in Colorado was from eastern Massachusetts. She used to tell my neice she was going to "go out to the packy and pick up a ringer." Translated it meant she was going to the liquor store to pick up a six-pack of beer which had plastic rings along each can with which to carry it!