Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK black) males, men; people in general.

2007		Skins ser.1 ep.2 [TV script] Ah, shit man! Raas blood white boy gone piss himself up you get me! Mandem’s sick stains.
2014		Stormzy ‘Shut Up’ 🎵 Dare one of you man try get loud / All of my mandem move so foul.
2016		Skepta ‘Corn on the Curb’ 🎵 It’s come like I'm too ambitious to be with the mandem on the road but [...] I can’t be up there with them people either.
2017		Eve. Standard (London) 13 May 🌐 The 23-year-old, who describes himself as a ‘food critic for the mandem’, avoids the big-name chains and instead chooses smaller, independent fried chicken shops for his reviews.
2018-20		T. Thorne (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Mansdem - group of males, male associates.
2020		G. Krauze What They Was 14: The mandem were all out in the sun, cotching by D-block.