To ask what on earth the phrase Oi! Oi! Saveloy! means??!!!!

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I've seen it on social media and it just doesn't make any sense!

Hello sausage, with rhyming.

It's just a greeting! Some of my older relatives say this. It's no different from 'Eh up or any other regional greeting.

It's just rhyming slang. Shouting 'Oi' is like 'Hey'. So 'Oi, Oi Saveloy!'

It's very laddish!

DustyMaiden - I can safely I don't think I'd ever have cause to use it!!!!

Same sort of thing as 'see you later alligator'

It's very laddish

I associate this phrase with the same demographic that would go for a Cheeky Nando's with the Archbishop of Banterbury and the Bantersaurus Rex/ or alternatively James Corden's character in Gavin and Stacey

Same sort of thing as 'see you later alligator'

Yep.

I though it was a ‘dan saff’ term. I don’t know anyone who uses this term where I live.

We say that all the time round here as a joke, not serious.

I thought it was something 'geezers' said in the 80s! Never heard it since then!

Haha it’s rather “old school” really. Remember saying this at school if a “fit” bloke was around.

Haha, my best friend and I say it to each other all the time. We are boringly bourgeois.

It’s essentially a ‘wahey!!!!’ type exclamation. My dad (60s, SE London) says it sometimes if greeting a mate in the pub.

Del Boy.

Haha it’s rather “old school” really. Remember saying this at school if a “fit” bloke was around.

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Oh and am from se London

I believe it is a term of friendly greeting employed in the SE of England.

It's from Essex/Thames Estuary. Joe Wicks says it at the beginning of some of his workouts!

Live in Essex and hear it occasionally, sometimes say it myself, it's just used in a jokey way I find but I've never really got it myself!

Be honest can't you see 'Smiffy' from Gavin and Stacey saying this phrase! It's like it was made for him!!

ILikeyourHairyHands - ah but is it predominantly uttered in 'RP'?

BlusteryLake - I need to listen to some of his workouts!

It's the Greek translation of "Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?"

I'd only ever expect to hear an extremely highbrow, very highly educated scholar quoting it.

Apparently, it's also JRM's 'safe-word' whenever his wife wants to try something new and a little more risque in the bedroom.

It’s not so much of a greeting as a bit of cheeky banter.
I wouldn’t say it to my dad instead of hello for example
You shout it at the fit lads out the top deck of a bus...

It’s a southern thing. A 90s thing.

What's a saveloy made out of is the question no one who's ever eaten one, wants asked or answered, lol.