Authored collaboratively by students of Bishop Challoner Collegiate School (in East London) and Paddington Academy (in West London). I have enjoyed seeing this dictionary come together, written young people for each other as well as for the rest of us who do our best to understand them. It is a sense-making exercise and a way for students to collaboratively explore their own and their peers' use of language... language obviously being central to understanding.
# 411 - Gossip
4real (4sure) - are you serious
5-O - Police A Allow bredding - to allow copying, to allow cheating
Allow it - stop it
Amp- Hyping, being too much
B B'- beautiful, babes, bruv ( used in a sentence like this "What's going on b?" or "How are you b?")
Back Off - Bum, as in, "so and so has back off"
Bad man - a big shot, a tough guy
Bag - Lots, as in "a bag of girls" --lots of girls
Baggamanz - a lot of people
Bare – Really, lots of
Bare rude -- Meaning you are very rude.
Bars - a rap song, part of a song, as in "spit some bars" (to sing something)
Beef - to fight
Begfriend – Someone who is desperate to be your friend
Bigging up – Complimenting
Blazing – Smoking, smoking marijuana
Bless - It's good, as in "it's all bless," it's all good, also means respect, you're bless means you're okay; can mean goodbye
Blud - Meaning your brother or sister hood
Bosh - Someone of loose morals, especially sexually
Bore Tru- go on
Boydem- police
Big boy on road - means his is a bad man
Babbidy - "thats crap or whack" (like instead of thats whack u wud say thats babbidy)
Batty-man - A gay man
Bigging Up - Giving a compliment
Brap-brap - Respect (often said while gesturing to shoot in the air)
Breeze - Saying stupid things
Breddin - Also means copying
Bruv - Close friend, mate, brother
Buckle - Trip (trip on something)
Blud (Blood) - Brother, friend
Blazing - Smoking
Bredrin - friends
Buff -Good Looking
Butters - Bad, ugly, not cool
Bun - Ugly (as ugly as kruters)
Busted - Ugly C Caked – Ugly
Chattin' - Lying e.g why are you chatting s**t? Meaning why are you lying?
Check me- See me, listen to me
Catin - Like copying me
Choon - Music
Choong - Hot, sexy as in bare choong
Cotch - Chilling
Creps - Trainers (running shoes)
Cuss - Insult
cliq-a gang of bedrins
Chirpsing- Flirting D Deal - To go out, steady, go out girlfriend-boyfriend
Draw - is a roll of marawana or could mean to flirt with a girl and get her number E Edge - Over the top, in your face
Eediat - idiot
Extra - Over the top, too much F Fedz - Police
Free Yard - No one (i.e. no parents) at home
Flattened - Ugly
Fresh (or FOB) - Describes someone newly immigrated, or who has just arrived, such as fresh off the boat; someone who acts as though they do not understand the local customs or how to get around
Food - Marijuana G Garmz - Clothes
Get me? - Do you understand me?
Goon - Boy
Goonette - Girl
Giving air - Ignoring someone
Grim - Disgusting
Gyaldem- Girlfriend/ Girl/ Women/ Female
Gyalies - A boy that likes to go out with many girls; A player
H Heads - People (i.e. Bare heads means lots of people)
Hype - Too much. Hyping means acting in a way that's over the top.
Hubz or Hubby- boyfriend
Hush your gums - be quiet, stop talking
Hype - Over the top
L Lash - Another word for leng (to have sex)
Leng - A gun; to have sex or marijuana
Lean - When you're intoxicated
Link - When two people are seeing each other but can see other people at the same time. I In-it - Short for "isn't it"
Is-it - Really?
Inner - Describes someone who is too nosey J Jack - Steal, as in “it got jacked.”
Jam - Calm down
Jam your hype - Relax, stop bothering me, act normal
Jamming - Relaxing
Jarring - Annoying
Joker - A funny or silly person, a clown-like person, someone not to be taken seriously
K Kat - Copying, as in someone was katting my work
KMT - Kiss My Teeth
Kissing teeth - a show of dissatisfaction, intolerance or annoyance
Kruters - Used to describe a very ugly person M Mandem- A boy or man
Manz - Refers to oneself
Moved to - to have been made a fool of, as in he got moved to
Mandem - boys
Mash Man - A gunman, a shooter
Merk - To insult someone so bad that they can't say anything (originally merk meant to kill somesone).
Mesh - to have sexual activity
Mission - To go somewhere quite far away, for example to complete a task); as in “going on a mission [to the store]”
N Nang - Good
No blud - Its not happening, or no way
Not bothered - Someone who is not bothered does not feel or is too lazy to to do something
Nunce - An unintelligent O Ones - To be alone
P Peng (or Piff) - Very good looking
Pow Pow (similar to Brap Brap) - Representing oneself well, bigging it up
Pumplex - Female genitalia
Pum pum - Female genitalia
R Raw - Something real, or amazing. Also describes someone able to do something previously unseen. S Safe - a way of saying hi, or "you're okay,"
Seckle - Settle down (Jamaican Slang)
Seen - Oh i see, or I understand
Shank - To stab
Shower - Pretty good
Shubz - Party
Skeen - Okay, or understand
Skell - Calm
Sket - Someone of loose morals, especially sexually
Snap - 'Oh,' as in "snap!, i didn't know that"
Spit - Rapping, as in "spit some rhymes"
Soz - Sorry
Stush - Describes someone who considers themself highly or who is greedy
Strap - A gun
Swingers - People fighting
Squalay - Go, as in squalay out of here.
Squash that - Leave it
Shower - To be really good at something
Swear down - To promise T Taxed- Jacked (stolen) or borrowed
That's how you KNOW! - General exclamation meaning “exactly!”
Tight - Cheap,
Tourist - Someone that doesn't know anything
Treck - Something far away V Vex - Angry, as in "You've got me vex," from vexed
W Wannabe - A begfriend, or a person who tries to hard to be someone they are not
Wettin - Running or fighting
Why you try'in it? - Why are you insult me?
Wasteman - A disliked or worthless person, as in "just some waste man."
Wifey- Girlfriend
Why you try'n it? -- Stop pushing me, stop being agressive
Y Yard - House
Yeah - Used after any other word, as in "look, yeah. I told her yeah that I'd go, init."
Younger - Sibling, someone younger than you, often used In MC-ing E.g Younger Karnage. Also used frequently in gang-talk to describe someone lower in stature (i.e. as in to be someone's younger).
Jazz - Describes someone unintelliegent Z Zoop zoop (or blap blap) - Bigging up
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