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Where do East End / Gangster slang terms for numbers relating to money originate?
Words like 'monkey', 'pony', 'ton' and so on are used by East End villains and Cockneys to denote numbers - ton is one hundred for example. Examples abound in popular culture (The Krays, Only Fools ...
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What is the meaning of the vernacular “beasted”?
Is anyone familiar with the vernacular term "beasted", used as a verb?
e.g. I beasted my exam.
My colleague's teenaged son used this exact phrase in a text-message. And she had no idea whether ...
