Septic Tank Cockney Rhyming Slang
Septic Tank is Cockney rhyming slang for yank
Septic is a Londoner’s gently sarcastic way of describing an American. It is not really an insult, it is more playful and cheeky than deliberately derogatory.
This is a very well-known phrase in London and probably throughout the UK.
Reader Bernard Tyrell and two other anonymous readers have said that this phrase is often said as sepo, with several readers saying that sepo is Australian rhyming slang for an American.
See also: antiseptic, meaning anti-American.
Submitted by the following 47 peeps:
- Danny,
- aaron holmes,
- Bernard Tyrrell,
- D. Griffith,
- sameer,
- Will Colley,
- danSMITH,
- Alex Carapiet,
- nclude,
- Stabz,
- Gervaz,
- Graham,
- Anon,
- John,
- Othello,
- DC RODGERS,
- Stewart Hugo,
- PETER BUCKLAND,
- Thomas Petty,
- Colin Benbow,
- catherine,
- Anon,
- jacob dempsey,
- CQ,
- Anon,
- James,
- David,
- Davo,
- Anon,
- Powerfull Pierre,
- Simon Thomas,
- Anon,
- Anon,
- Anon,
- Jack,
- Paul Davis,
- tony,
- Spam Fritter,
- Ivor Biggun,
- Jake,
- Tom,
- Anon,
- sean hunter,
- Peter Cummins,
- Barbara Stevens,
- Anon,
- strangeblue,
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