amagent

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Noun

amagent (plural amagents)

  1. (South Africa) A young male criminal gang member.
    • 1998, Crime and Conflict (issues 13-22, page 26)
      In the amagents' telling, police regularly accept bribes to overlook the crimes or drop the charges against the amagents.
    • 2002, Mark Shaw, Crime and Policing in Post-apartheid South Africa, page 60:
      Young black men who are engaged in crime — or amagents as they are popularly known in townships — told interviewers that violent and broken homes and poverty were the two key factors that had influenced their decision to become involved […]
    • 2011, Chris Blazina, David S. Shen-Miller, An International Psychology of Men, page 29:
      Amagents may be defined as young men who tend to regard themselves as streetwise and may be involved in petty or serious criminal activity.

References

  • Tony Thorne (2014) “amagent”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  : Bloomsbury

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