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Pete Tong en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (slang) Wrong.
    • 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/:
    • I might have been totally Pete Tong about this type of gig being Magenta's cup of tea 2012, 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: