BRITISH AMERICAN ENG

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rabbit: talk incessantly, jabber
RAC: Royal Automobile Club
radiator: heater, the kind common inoffice building
rag and bone man: itinerant junk man
rag: newspaper magazine, comic book
rag week: fund raising program
rag-tag and bobtail: riff-raff, the dense unwashed masses
railway: railroad
Railway coach, railway carriage: railroad car, rail car
Randy: horry
Raspberry: blown derisive, bronx cheer
Rat-arsed: drun
Rave up: wild party
Rawlplug: plastic plug
Raw prawn: don’t come
Reader: associate professor
Realise: get a clue
Real lad: a term a admiration
Really: a response surprise
Rear ender: gay guy
Reception: front desk
Red Arrows: exhibition RAF crack
Reel: spool, bobbin
Removal man: moving man
Removals: moving, hence
Return ticket: round trip ticket
Reverse: back-up
Reverse charges: call collect
Reversing lights: back-up lights
Ri: religious instruction, re, rs
Riding of yorkshire: west riding and north riding
Right: very, right git
Right charlie: dunce
Right git: esp annoying person
Right one” twit
Ring up: call, phone
Rise: pay raise
Robin: this bird of legend
Rock: large boulder
Rock: thick candy cane
Rocket: spirited rebuke or telling off, bawl out, chew out
Rocket: arugula
Rods: harrods
Roger: screw, sex
Rolo mints: lifesavers
Roller: roll-royce rolo
Rollocking: bollocking
Rollocks: bollocks
Roly-poly: suet pastry
Ron: later on
Root for: buck for
Rootle: rummage around
ropy, ropey: poor in quality
rosy: tea
roundabout: traffic circle
round the twist: round the bend
row: royal members
royal mail: equivelent to postal service
rozzer: policeman
RS: religious stidies
rubber: eraser
rubber johnny: condom
rubbish: trash bags, garbage bags
rucksack: camping backpack
ruddy: bloody
rude: indecent, lewd
rum: odd, curious, queer
rum and black: rum and black currant juice
runner bean: green bean, scarlet