Meaning of currant bun | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bun containing currants.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Currant Bun.
   alt-of
3. The Sun (celestial body).
   Cockney, slang
4. The Sun (British newspaper).
   Cockney, slang

Examples

“Had to go further down the road to get me Currant Bun / "Hello isn't that George on page one?"”

“THAT painfully honest little newspaper, the Sun, was boiling with indignation yesterday about the case of the Tory minister who tried to smear Paddy Ashdown. […] Imagine, for instance, this call. […] K[elvin] M[acKenzie]: “Paddy Pantsdown? We done ’im already, Douggie. Don’t you read the Currant Bun?” […] Two weeks ago the editor of the Independent, a daily paper, was being screamed at by the Sun (aided by Britain’s biggest tabloid, the Sunday Times). Why? For having the unspeakable nerve to reveal all about Mrs Bottomley. We’ll get you, warned the Currant Bun.”

“He normally read the Sun, swearing it was the best indicator of what would happen to the FTSE. His theory was simple: so many of the barrow boys trading on LIFFE read the currant bun that the markets were bound to do whatever its money column said.”

“A friend returns from Istanbul to report spotting him reclining by the pool with a copy of The Sun resting atop the pile of papers on the drinks table. This wouldn’t go down well back home, where the Scousers still boycott the paper 20 years after its Hillsborough coverage. Many Brits go abroad to indulge tastes discouraged here but Stevie G is the first case of someone flying to Turkey to read the Currant Bun in safety.”

“After the bruising experience of Thursday morning, [Liz] Truss attempted a different tack, writing a piece for The Sun. In the article, which went online late on Friday evening, she told the paper’s readers that when she became Prime Minister, her government “could not afford to dither or delay”. […] Truss, a Remainer turned Brexit true believer, is clearly unfit for the post she has not yet held for a month and no number of flimsy articles in the Currant Bun will shake that widely held view.”

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