Pete Tong

adjective

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Meanings

adjective
  1. slangWrong.

    I might have been totally Pete Tong about this type of gig being Magenta's cup of tea

    2012, Echo Freer, Magenta Sings The Blues, page 88 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Magenta_Sings_The_Blues/WXrbYnanF6gC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Pete+Tong%22&pg=PT88
    1 more example

    Cor blimey guv'nor, where did they get those accents from? [...] Their accents are completely Pete Tong.

    2020, IMDb review of "A Christmas Exchange" https://www.imdb.com/review/rw6376775/

Origin

Rhyming slang referencing English disc jockey Pete Tong, coined by Paul Oakenfold in late 1987.

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Cite this entry
APA

Pete Tong. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pete%20Tong

MLA

“Pete Tong.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pete%20Tong. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Pete Tong,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pete%20Tong.

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