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[Cockney rhyming slang] for [look] ([butchers hook])
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[Rhyming slang] - [Butchers hook], [meaning] look
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An adaptation of the cockney Rhyming Slang Bucthers Hook (to look) made by locals from the Isle of Wight, England. In this case its been used to discribe petty persistent criminals or a crook, hence [the Butchers] bit ([butchers hook] - crook).Beleived to have started primarily in the West of the Island in the early 1980s. Then went on to [pervade] the island and some parts of the near mainland. Now it is used to describe any Kind of criminal activity from torching a car to burglary and shoplifting.
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a place where they [chop up] [dead] [animals]
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a person who sells meat in a shop
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