Yardie
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Noun
Yardie (plural Yardies)
- (Jamaica) A Jamaican.
- (chiefly British) A member of an Afro-Caribbean gang who engages in organized crime, especially drug trafficking.
- 2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch (motion picture), 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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Noun
Yardie (plural Yardie dem, quantified Yardie)
- Alternative form of yardie