noun a café. Rhyming slang, formed on the name of the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi (b.1942) UK, 2002
Ⅱ⇨ Colonel Prescott; colonel
noun a waistcoat. Rhyming slang, thought to date from the 1930s UK, 1992
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Colonel Blimp
An older man who is pompous or irritable and adheres to an outdated ideology. The name comes from a British comic strip character that first appeared in the London Evening Standard newspaper in 1934. Primarily heard in UK. He's such a Colonel Blimp when he starts ranting about his views on welfare and the poor.