dukey

• Rhymes: -uːki

dukey (plural dukeys)

1. (obsolete, UK, slang) A penny gaff.
   • 1919, Thomas McDonald Rendle, Swings and Roundabouts: A Yokel in London, page 50:

     Delicate perfumes floated through the theatre; at the penny "dukey," fried fish and hot codlins reminded you more of food than fantasy.

   • 1960, Theatre Notebook, volumes 14-16, page 122:

     Between the pieces were individual turns, comic songs and dances. […] Simpson, also the proprietor of a Dukey in Queen Square, Westminster, was the aristocrat of the Penny Gaffs.

• dookie, dooky

• John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

dukey (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of dookie (“ostentatiously thick”).
   • 2002, Christopher A. Darden, ‎Dick Lochte, L.A. Justice (page 169)

     […] dukey rope around his neck. “Looks like another gangsta bit the dust in a driveby in Inglewood last night," the voice announced from the radio."

   • 1990, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, page 245:

     Yo homeboy, bus this. You're clockin if you think me and my posse would bite your Nine or dukey rope.

• Tony Thorne (2014), “dukey rope”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London;  […]: Bloomsbury: "a gold chain as worn by males. It is an emblematic accessory among rap and hip hop aficionados."

• yuked