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Re:Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bi... by philh on Thursday January 19, 2017 @11:33AM (#13437057)
FWIW, I've lived in the UK my whole life and I had no idea that had any meaning apart from the crypto one.
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Re:Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bi... by richmarr on Thursday January 19, 2017 @11:47AM (#13437202)
I think it's quite an old fashioned bit of slang... I think I've come across it more frequently in 1970s/80s police dramas than anywhere else.

Google has it pinned as being primarily a UK search term so there must still be people using it, unless this is just an echo caused by a special offer on boxed sets of The Sweeney.

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Re:Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bi... by afandian on Thursday January 19, 2017 @12:40PM (#13437621)
Well, it is prison slang, but, I believe, in broad circulation. Maybe it is a bit dated.

Wikipedia says it's in the OED: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_(slang)

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