What does Pike Street mean in British slang?

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Pikey: Irish Travellers (Although usually used to refer to a person of low social class). Pike Street: Street of Pikeys From WikiPedia:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikey"Pikey is a pejorative slang term used in the United Kingdom, used originally to refer to Irish Travellers. In recent years, the definition has become loose and is sometimes used to refer to a wide section of the (generally urban) underclass of the country, or merely a person of any social class who "lives on the cheap".

The term is considered to have negative connotations; even when it refers to others, many people still consider it to be derogatory and offensive. "Pikey" is frequently used as an adjective, as in "he lives on a pikey estate", "those clothes look pikey" or "(name of cheap shop) is a pikey shop". However, "pikey" is also occasionally used as a verb, a synonym for "steal", as in "Someone's pikeyed my bike".

The American terms "trailer trash" and "white trash" are similar in the condescension and disdain with which they are used, though the stereotypes differ in some particulars. The term "pikey" is used widely all around the fringes of Greater London and particularly in the region of West London near Heathrow Airport and all of the neighbouring boroughs, Hounslow, Slough, Staines, Uxbridge, etc. , where large numbers of travellers or gypsies have settled over decades.It is generally used as a description of those people and their classes or types and is therefore a stereotype of those people from the areas where in the 1920s to 1960s a lot of unused land was bought or occupied and unplanned development took place. The term "pikey" is also used as a pejorative term for those people and for their perceived traits.

Sometimes, the term is used emotively and indicates an element of envy, because some types of work or business are viewed as "wheeler-dealer" or "pikey" business practices."I'm from the UK by the way... :-) Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikey .

There are a couple meaning to this British slang 1. If you don't like it, you can pike it = Often said to a discontented person (Like hit the road in American slang) 2. Turnpike or tollroad 3.

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2 I think a "Pike Street" might be a toll road. Toll roads originated with the use of large pointed poles, or pikes, that were turned to allow passage. It is from this that American toll roads are often called "turnpikes."This is just a logical guess based on the origin of "turnpike;" I can't verify it, so I won't post it as an official answer.

I think a "Pike Street" might be a toll road. Toll roads originated with the use of large pointed poles, or pikes, that were turned to allow passage. It is from this that American toll roads are often called "turnpikes."This is just a logical guess based on the origin of "turnpike;" I can't verify it, so I won't post it as an official answer.

3 newbie2311112, regarding your answer "Pikey: Irish Travellers (Although usually used to refer to a person of low social class). Pike Street: Street of Pikeys":You reference Wikipedia's entry on "Pikey" for your answer, but Wikipedia makes no mention of the phrase "Pike Street. " It seems an unfounded leap of logic to me to infer that a "Pike Street" is a street of Pikeys.

Newbie2311112, regarding your answer "Pikey: Irish Travellers (Although usually used to refer to a person of low social class). Pike Street: Street of Pikeys":You reference Wikipedia's entry on "Pikey" for your answer, but Wikipedia makes no mention of the phrase "Pike Street. " It seems an unfounded leap of logic to me to infer that a "Pike Street" is a street of Pikeys.

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