Cockney Rhyming Slang.

[sandyRoe]

How does 'slims' become Muslims?

[Hymie]

When TTT uses it.

[davebro3]

I don't think that has anything whatsoever to do with cockneys...

[davebro3]

so the question is moot

[Old_Geezer]

It isn't CRS.

It's removing the start of the word.

[sandyRoe]

 

It wouldn't really work if you chopped the last two letters off.

[Old_Geezer]

I think that's been reserved for cereal killers.

[douglas9401]

'alpen you're right.

[ToraToraTora]

it's not cockney rhymming slang, like Rabs.

[THECORBYLOON]

It's the end part of "Muslims" in a similar way to "Prod" morphing from the "Prot" in "Protestant".

I can't say I've seen it used elsewhere mind.

[naomi24]

Someone else used 'slims' once before I saw TTT use it.  Only the once though,  I can't remember who that was,  Perhaps TTT picked it up there.

[naomi24]

What's Rabs?

[Ken4155]

YoungMF uses it, too. No doubt one has copied t'other.

I'm guessing you need to add the letter 'A' to 'Rabs', Naomi.

[naomi24]

Thanks Ken.  How daft.

[THECORBYLOON]

TORATORATORA is a Pean or he could be a Ton or a Lishman...

[Peter Pedant]

what good does it a man to know what TTT;s latest word salad means?

[Peter Pedant]

TTT is a Pean or he could be a Ton or a Lishman..

erm cd he be a wat? - after wat tyler revolutionist of 1381? good night everyone

[New Judge]

"I can't say I've seen it used elsewhere mind."

Some years back a group of my contemporaries would refer to their parents and the "rents".

[THECORBYLOON]

Many words have been shortened but I've not seen Muslim shortened to "Slim" on the sites I've looked at.