Barney Rubble
English
editEtymology
editAfter Barney Rubble, a fictional character in the television animated series The Flintstones.
Noun
edit- (Cockney rhyming slang) Trouble.
- 1987, “A Bit of Culture: Jackie Looks at Which Cult Is Which…”, in Jackie Annual, London: D. C. Thomson & Co., Ltd., →ISBN, page 23:
- Likes: The Minds (Simple), The Council (Style), & Spear (Of Destiny). Trying to grow a moustache. Trying to get girls drunk at parties. Getting into Barney Rubble (trouble) at football matches.
Further reading
edit- “Barney Rubble n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present