Food & Drink Slang (non alcohol)

Drink

  • Adam’s ale – noun. water
  • brewnoun. a hot drink, usually tea
  • corporation popnoun. water
  • cow juicenoun. milk
  • Rosie Leenoun. rhyming slang for tea
  • sploshnoun. tea  

Food

  • barmcakenoun. a bread bun
  • bangernoun. a sausage
  • brekkynoun. breakfast
  • buttie/butty noun. a sandwich
  • dockytimenoun. morning break
  • eating ironsnoun. cutlery
  • elevensesnoun. morning break
  • gob spannersnoun. cutlery
  • grubnoun. general food
  • jockey’s whipsnoun. rhyming slang for chips (French fries)
  • noshnoun/verb
  • pig outverb. to eat
  • sangernoun. sandwich
  • sarnienoun. sandwich
  • scoffverb. to eat – noun. food
  • scrannoun. food, generally
  • slap up mealnoun. a large very good meal

Places to eat and drink

  • caffnoun. a cafe
  • chinkynoun. a Chinese takeaway (offensive)
  • chippynoun. chip shop (a fastfood establishment)
  • greasy spoonnoun. a cheap cafe 
  • nosherynoun. a cafe or restaurant