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Pete Tong

Pete Tong adjective: wrong.

Adjective

Pete Tong

  1. (slang) Wrong.
    • I might have been totally Pete Tong about this type of gig being Magenta's cup of tea2012, Echo Freer, Magenta Sings The Blues, page 88 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Magenta_Sings_The_Blues/WXrbYnanF6gC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Pete+Tong%22&pg=PT88
    • Cor blimey guv'nor, where did they get those accents from? [...] Their accents are completely Pete Tong.2020, IMDb review of "A Christmas Exchange" https://www.imdb.com/review/rw6376775/

Origin of Pete Tong

Rhyming slang referencing English disc jockey Pete Tong, coined by Paul Oakenfold in late 1987.

Questions about Pete Tong

What does Pete Tong mean?
Pete Tong means wrong.
What part of speech is Pete Tong?
Pete Tong is an adjective.

Words near Pete Tong in the dictionary

  1. petcocks
  2. petcoke
  3. petcokes
  4. PETCs
  5. pete
  6. Pete Tong
  7. petecchial
  8. petechia
  9. petechiae
  10. petechial
  11. petechial fever

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