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| Ali
Button |
|
subservient
fool |
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| Backative
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collateral/
substance |
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| Backyard
|
|
backside |
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| battery
|
|
having
sex with more than 1 person at a time (gang bang) |
|
| beanie
|
|
small
(size) |
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| blar
|
|
to
show off |
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| leach
(1) |
|
to go without rest, usu. ref. to raving |
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| bleach
(2) |
|
use
a bleaching agent to lighten skin |
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| blender
|
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a
stirrer of trouble |
|
| bly
|
|
a chance/opportunity |
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| Boots
|
|
condom |
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| bam
bam |
|
To
show appreciation when something is good ( gun shot noise) |
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| booyakka |
|
as
Bam Bam, but bigger gun |
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| bow |
|
to
perform oral sex |
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Box
Bwoy |
Sound
System roadie (from carrying speaker boxes) |
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| buck |
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to
meet (bump into) |
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| Buddy |
|
penis |
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| bumm
shot |
|
the
best/ baddest |
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| Bumper |
|
backside |
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Bups |
Sugar
Daddy |
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| bush |
|
looking
good, and proud |
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| bruckout |
|
to let lose (on the dancefloor) |
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Carbon |
copy |
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| carry-go-bring-come
|
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to
gossip |
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| Chuckie |
|
local tough guy |
|
| clash |
|
head-to-head
competition |
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| Coil |
|
money |
|
Crotches |
female
genitalia |
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| dapper |
|
stylish |
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| dege
dege |
|
small
(quantity) |
|
Diaspora
(African) |
Area
outside of Africa where Africans have settled eg. the Americas |
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| DJ |
|
rapper,
MC |
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| Don |
|
a
rank of high respect (Mafia Don) |
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| Dub |
|
dancehall
music from the 1970's and 80's made by dubbing tracks and sound effects
together. |
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| Dub
Plate |
|
commissioned
version of a popular recording celebrating the client (usu. Sound System) |
Duppy |
|
ghost |
|
Fabi |
undesireable, older woman | ||
| Fassy |
|
a
sore/rash. Derogatory term |
|
fava |
|
to
resemble |
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fe
(fay) |
to say fe is a defiant response to a challenge as in "go on then!" or "I bet you!" | ||
flex |
|
a
movement, either physical or through life |
|
forward |
|
big
appreciation from the crowd |
|
Fresh
Vegetable |
young
girl (virgin) |
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Ganzie |
T
shirt |
||
heavy |
|
to
have influence or power; well armed |
|
irie |
|
good,
happy, high |
|
israelite |
|
poor,
dispossessed. Wanderer |
|
ital |
|
natural |
|
John
Crow |
|
strong
insult, |
|
K |
kilowatt (1000 watts) 20k system = Sound System with amplifiers that total 20, 000 watts. |
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Kaisonian |
Calypsonian.
Calypso equivalent of a reggae DJ |
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KMT |
(Kemet) Ancient Egypt | ||
kotch |
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to squat or settle somewhere, usu. unwelcome. To wedge something open |
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labba
labba |
|
talk or talkative |
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langey
langey |
|
long |
|
lick |
|
to
hit. A hit record or style |
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Machine |
|
gun |
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Maestro |
Rumba
equivalent of the regga DJ |
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Mampie |
large woman | ||
Marina |
vest |
||
Massive |
|
a
collective, usu. with something in common |
|
mesh |
looking
mesh = looking good |
||
model |
|
to
pose (poseur) |
|
Momma
Man |
|
sissy |
|
Nine |
|
gun
(9mm) |
|
| |
Numbers often crop up in records. "Me na play no. 2."These come from the coded language derived from the illegal numbers game 'Drop Pan'. |
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nyam |
|
to
eat |
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one-a-way |
one of a kind | ||
Operator |
|
sound
engineer |
|
penny |
|
to
watch (spy/stalk) |
|
Punany |
female
genitalia |
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Pum
Pum |
female
genitalia |
||
Queen
(Dancehall) |
|
dancehall
diva (female) |
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