Definition of China plate

China plate

noun

• "mate", i.e. friend. Cockney rhyming slang: "China plate" rhymes with "mate".

  Alright my old China? (Translation: Hello friend.)

  Last edited on Jun 04 2013. Submitted by Anonymous from Dorset, UK on Jul 05 2010.

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Other terms relating to 'china':
BRIC	Definitions include: acronym for "Brazil, Russia, India, and China".
chicken to China	Definitions include: an expression that precedes a phone call to an Asian drug dealer.
China	Definitions include: "mate", i.e. friend.
Tipping is not a town in China.	Definitions include: A phrase usually used by bartenders to imply that a patron should acknowledge gratuity.
Tipping isn't just a city in China	Definitions include: said to a person who's leaving little or no tip for services rendered.
Other terms relating to 'plate':
a lot on (one's) plate	Definitions include: See on (one's) plate.
clean (one's) plate	Definitions include: to eat all the food on one's plate.
drop plates	Definitions include: to put the smack down.
have a lot on (one's) plate	Definitions include: to have a lot on (one's) plate.
on (one's) plate	Definitions include: as one's current responsibility.
tin plate	Definitions include: rhyming slang for mate.

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