Barney Rubble

English

Etymology

After Barney Rubble, a fictional character in the television animated series The Flintstones.

Noun

Barney Rubble

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) Trouble.
   • 1987, “A Bit of Culture: Jackie Looks at Which Cult Is Which…”, in Jackie Annual, London: D. C. Thomson & Co., Ltd., →ISBN, page 23:

     Likes: The Minds (Simple), The Council (Style), & Spear (Of Destiny). Trying to grow a moustache. Trying to get girls drunk at parties. Getting into Barney Rubble (trouble) at football matches.

Further reading

• “Barney Rubble n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present