back slang

British

noun

a type of slang in which words are spelled and, as far as possible, pronounced backwards

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back slang

About that time, the company was stumped for new material, so it asked its sales staff to send back slang expressions from the road.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

Victorian criminals did essentially the same with back slang, reversing words so that boy became yob and so on.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2013

He also offers a history of back slang and rhyming slang.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2012

I'd ha' run it off into back slang, and ha' done it most willing and free.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, November 25, 1893 by Various

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