Yardie
See also: yardie
English
Alternative forms
- yardie
Etymology
Yard + -ie
Noun
Yardie (plural Yardies)
- (Jamaica) A Jamaican.
- (chiefly Britain) A member of an Afro-Caribbean gang who engages in organized crime, especially drug trafficking.
- 2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch, spoken by Sol (Lennie James):
- You are a bad-boy yardie, and bad-boy yardies are supposed to know how to get rid of bodies.
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Derived terms
- Yardie squad
Further reading
Yardie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- e-diary, yerida
Jamaican Creole
Noun
Yardie (plural: Yardie dem or Yardies dem, quantified: Yardie)
- Alternative form of yardie.