"Uncle Ned" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Uncle Neds [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|head=Uncle Ned}} Uncle Ned (plural Uncle Neds)
  1. (Cockney rhyming slang) bed. Tags: Cockney, slang
    Sense id: en-Uncle_Ned-en-noun-n6bRkhoD
  2. (Cockney rhyming slang) head. Tags: Cockney, slang
    Sense id: en-Uncle_Ned-en-noun-jfSMIzHV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 95

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1982, Jack S. Scott, An Uprush of Mayhem, page 105",
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          "text": "Oi fink your Uncle Ned's all 'arbour. Oi'll wait for hinstrooctions after you and the Major stump the chalk.",
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          "ref": "2013, Chris Sharp, War Games in an Urban Village: A Personal Account of Boyhood",
          "text": "\"Well,\" she replied, \"when yer gets up from yer Uncle Ned and yer wants ter get away from the Trouble an' Strife, yer'd go dahn the Frog and Toad to meet yer China Plates at the Rubba-Dub-Dub!\"",
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        },
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          "text": "Oi fink your Uncle Ned's all 'arbour. Oi'll wait for hinstrooctions after you and the Major stump the chalk.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2013, Chris Sharp, War Games in an Urban Village: A Personal Account of Boyhood",
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