From: "Adam Flinton" 

It's rhyming slang.

Bit worse than calling someone a merchant banker.

Adam

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:3e777d1d{at}w3.nls.net...
> I think these Poms are playing us, digging up ever more perfidious-Albion
> incomprehensible neologisms.  Berkshire hunt, indeed.  What's that, a
melee
> with coppers, fox-huggers, and lockjaw Lorks all milling around in the
mud?
>
> Answer, and give the baseball scores for all of last season, or you'll be
> shot for a Hessian.
>
>

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