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Crash at your pad

Posted by Bruce Kahl on December 05, 2001

In Reply to: Cockney Rhyming sland X 2 posted by Gary on December 05, 2001

: : Does anyone know the origin of the Cockney term "Drum" as in "Im going back to my drum", flat or house. In addition to this, I d also like to know where the Hippy slang Pad came from. This also means flat or house.

: Drum isn't rhyming slang. It originates from the 18th century name for a riotous party at a private house - the name relating to the noisiness. The party at the house and the house itself later became synonymous.

: Don't know about pad, although it is pre-hippy. Beatniks used it commonly in the 1950s. In William Brohaugh's English Through the Ages he lists it as meaning 'bed or residence' by 1720.

: Gary

I see a pad as a mat or cushion which can be rolled up in the morning and unrolled in the evening so you can use it to "crash" at your "pad".

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