Rockstar Spud Rockstar Spud James Michael Curtin (born 30 January 1983) is an English professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs under the ring name 'Drake Maverick' and is both the on-screen General Manager of "205 Live" and the manager of the tag team AOP on "Raw". He is known for his work with Impact Wrestling and various British and American indies under the ring name 'Rockstar Spud', a gimmick based on obnoxious 1980s rock stars. He has also wrestled matches as 'Spud', often as the underdog who defeats much larger wrestlers. He has worked for SAS Wrestling, Frontier Wrestling
Rhyming slang and truncated to "Aris". Ghil'ad Zuckermann, a linguist and revivalist, has proposed a distinction between rhyming slang based on sound only, and phono-semantic rhyming slang, which includes a semantic link between the slang expression and its referent (the thing it refers to). An example of rhyming slang based only on sound is the Cockney "tea leaf" (thief). An example of phono-semantic rhyming slang is the Cockney "sorrowful tale" ((three months in) jail), in which case the person coining the slang term sees a semantic link, sometimes jocular, between the Cockney expression and its referent. The use of rhyming slang has