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Pecknarm
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English
Alternative forms
en Pecknam
Etymology
en Peckham Vietnam, as an analogy between Peckham's high level of violence and the Vietnam War.o4kyotq n en why is -r- added? for easier pronunciation?
Pronunciation
en
Proper noun
en slang MLE en Peckham suburb lbor/Southwark x/Greater London x/England.
en 2010 Nigel Cawthorne The World's Most Evil Gangsters The Peckham Boys 1 London w:John Blake Publishing Ltd 9781844549573 14 https://archive.org/details/worldsmostevilga0000cawt/page/14/mode/2up?q=%22Pecknarm%22 A Ghetto Boy told journalist Donal MacIntyre: ‘If any of those Peckham Boys come over to New Cross, this will happen.’ And he ran his finger across his throat. MacIntyre asked if the war between the Ghetto Boys and the ‘Pecknarm’ — the slang name for Peckham – was about drugs.
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