cobblers

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

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Shortened from cobbler's awls, for balls (testicles or nonsense)

[edit] Noun

cobblers

  1. Plural form of cobbler.
  2. (UK, slang) The police.
    Our house got broken into, but the cobblers wouldn't dust for prints.
  3. (Cockney rhyming slang) Testicles.
    Then she only goes and kicks me right in me cobblers, don't she!
  4. (Cockney rhyming slang) Nonsense.
    Stop talking cobblers.

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