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Ayrton Senna
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English
Etymology
After the racing driver.
Noun
en Cockney rhyming slang Tenner ten pound note
en 1995 Time Out London Guide http://books.google.com/books?id=UHYTAQAAIAAJ 245 Penguin Books 9780140248739 An Ayrton Senna (tenner) buys you 15 minutes of madness at Daytona & Indianapolis.
en 2002 Manfred Görlach Still more Englishes Youngsters now talk of borrowing an Ayrton Senna (tenner), of feeling Calvin Klein (fine) or being Terry Waite (late).
en 2004 Mervyn Stutter Getting Nowhere Fast You take this hundred quid in used Ayrton Sennas and I'll be off in the old Camilla Parker-Bowles.
en 2008 Alfred fox Anna's Story: Basset Mead 24 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=B7AMOEctNr0C&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=%22an+Ayrton+Senna%22&source=bl&ots=tsy25kkvf5&sig=x-dh3euWtJvmDUfAHn3l3-YwXME&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LTNjUIqoHevZ0QXrnoDwDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22an%20Ayrton%20Senna%22&f=false “Here, an Ayrton Senna. Now if you can get the crisps and Pepsi, don't forget the mints, I'm going to get a 'nother name.”
en 2012 John Philips Who Cares Who's 3rd?: (Or 2nd for That Matter) 346 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=S5G92OPcfOQC&pg=PA346&lpg=PA346&dq=%22an+Ayrton+Senna%22&source=bl&ots=q6YmIRv1kF&sig=m7MXL-REKAgjPTwOuL5tk0FDN94&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LTNjUIqoHevZ0QXrnoDwDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22an%20Ayrton%20Senna%22&f=false 'Thank you sir — an Ayrton Senna it is . . . every little helps'The weasel nodded vacantly, ruing the loss of his only tenner.
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