Editing Rhyming slang (section)

=== In film ===
Cary Grant's character teaches rhyming slang to his female companion in ''[[Mr. Lucky (film)|Mr. Lucky]]'' (1943), describing it as 'Australian rhyming slang'. Rhyming slang is also used and described in a scene of the 1967 film ''[[To Sir, with Love]]'' starring [[Sidney Poitier]], where the English students tell their foreign teacher that the slang is a drag and something for old people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/t/to-sir-with-love-script.html|title=To Sir With Love – Script – transcript from the screenplay and/or Sidney Poitier movie|website=www.script-o-rama.com|access-date=19 March 2018}}</ref> The closing song of the 1969 crime caper, ''[[The Italian Job]]'', ("Getta Bloomin' Move On" a.k.a. "The Self Preservation Society") contains many slang terms.

Rhyming slang has been used to lend authenticity to an East End setting. Examples include ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]'' (1998) (wherein the slang is translated via subtitles in one scene); ''[[The Limey]]'' (1999); ''[[Sexy Beast]]'' (2000); ''[[Snatch (film)|Snatch]]'' (2000); ''[[Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)|Ocean's Eleven]]'' (2001); and ''[[Austin Powers in Goldmember]]'' (2002); ''[[It's All Gone Pete Tong]]'' (2004), after BBC radio disc jockey [[Pete Tong]] whose name is used in this context as rhyming slang for "wrong"; ''[[Green Street Hooligans]]'' (2005). In [[Margin Call (film)|''Margin Call'']] (2011), Will Emerson, played by London-born actor [[Paul Bettany]], asks a friend on the telephone, "How's the trouble and strife?" ("wife").

''[[Cockneys vs Zombies]]'' (2012) mocked the genesis of rhyming slang terms when a Cockney character calls zombies "Trafalgars" to even his Cockney fellows' puzzlement; he then explains it thus: "''Trafalgar square – fox and hare – hairy Greek – five day week – weak and feeble – pins and needles – needle and stitch – Abercrombie and Fitch – Abercrombie: zombie''".

The live-action [[Disney]] film ''[[Mary Poppins Returns]]'' song "Trip A Little Light Fantastic" involves Cockney rhyming slang in part of its lyrics, and is primarily spoken by the London lamplighters.

In the animated superhero film ''[[Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse]]'' (2023), character [[Spider-Punk]], a [[Camden Town|Camden]] native, is heard saying: "I haven't got a [[Scooby-Doo|scooby]]" ("clue").<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-09 |title=How Daniel Kaluuya's Cockney-Speaking, Authority-Defying Spider-Punk Came to Life |url=https://www.gq.com/story/spider-punk-daniel-kaluuya-across-the-spider-verse |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=GQ |language=en-US}}</ref>