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[UK] G. Small Ruthless 243: Once the Spanglers’ lawlessness was sanctioned – bankrolled and armed – by megalomaniac politicos.
at bankroll, v.
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 188: The prevalent belief among ignorant heterosexual males that they [HIV virus & AIDS] are ‘batty’ men – homosexual – complaints.
at battyman (n.) under batty, n.2
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 188: Deckd out in glittering boob tubes and ‘batty riders’ (hot pants).
at batty rider (n.) under batty, n.2
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 385: Instead of ‘running them’ [chasing them away], the youth ‘bigged them up’ [flattered them]; they gave them respect.
at big up, v.
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 226: Bigga’s gang had become a big wheel in the drug trafficking business.
at big wheel (n.) under big, adj.
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 228: You come in ... crisp [well-dressed] and a spend you money.
at crisp, adj.1
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 246: A plethora of audio cassettes, a top-of-the-range ghettoblaster [...] and his trusty Beretta.
at ghetto blaster (n.) under ghetto, adj.
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 242: As much as the Spanglers’ ‘straight-up’ gangsters are role models for many a youthful, would-be rudie gunslinger, they try to keep children and teenagers on the straight and narrow.
at gun-slinger, n.
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 196: They have a thing called ‘gun baggage’, [...] ‘Gun baggage’ refers to the youth the rudies offload their weapons on to when the security forces are around, the police being less likely to search a minor for a firearm.
at gun baggage (n.) under gun, n.1
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 239: ‘To me,’ the veteran gun ‘hawk’ says, ‘dem Third World youth deh dem crazy. Most a dem a just badness dem a deal wid ... For you have some crazy youth inna my area right now – every day and night dem a fire gun, y’know?’.
at gunhawk (n.) under gun, n.1
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 227: Me lick me head [fraternised] wid me bad brother a Waterhouse, and from deh so me just start to be a hardcore.
at hardcore, n.
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 50: Where once ganja shipments were prone to appropriation by Johnny-come-latelys, now Rude Boys rode shotgun.
at johnny-come-lately (n.) under johnny, n.1
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 197: It’s no use playing sweet boy an’ get dead. Me not going to make a youth jook me [shoot] down and gone.
at juke, v.2
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 238: We lick [clamp] down ’pon it hard.
at lick, v.1
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 218: Then there are the latest ‘licks’ (tunes) and ‘champion’ sound systems.
at lick, n.2
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 229: Such hallowed figures are given ‘respect to the max. Anybody try fi hurt him, fi hurt we,’.
at to the max (adv.) under max, n.
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 181: Women are also deeply involved in the drugs world, especially as ‘mules’.
at mule, n.
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 238: After all, it is not one or two posse drug dealers who have become so enamoured of their ‘nose candy’ [...] that they have neglected to sell it.
at nose candy (n.) under nose, n.
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 219: A youth [...] breaks off from the conversation to beckon a passing higgler. ‘Eh, bwoy! Eh, eh pussyclaat!’.
at pussy claat (n.) under pussy, n.
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 192: Someone in the crowd didn’t like it, and they fling a bottle on him [...] He said: ‘Pussyhole [female sex organ], fling another bottle again and I will shot ounu down right now.’.
at pussy hole (n.) under pussy, n.
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 238: After all it is not one or two posse drug dealers who have become so enamoured of their [...] ‘Scotty’ (as in the famous Star Trek line, ‘beam me up, Scotty’) that they have neglected to sell it.
at Scotty, n.1
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 89: Manley’s first ‘shocker’ came in the first week of January 1977.
at shocker, n.
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 190: The undisputed king of dancehall was Yellowman, a black albino with a unique line in ‘slack’ lyrics.
at slack, adj.
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 238: If a man in our area an’ him a sniff [snort cocaine], him can’t mek we know.
at sniff, v.
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 215: We is just straight-up [out-and-out] gangster. Strictly gangster world we deal with.
at straight up, adj.2
[UK] G. Small Ruthless 190: This militant bass-driven musical form spawned a host of ‘toasters’ or rappers such as I-Roy, U-Roy, and Big Youth.
at toaster, n.2
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