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Catch a Fire 112: Drunk as donkeys on Dragon stout.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
Catch a Fire 112: Drunk as donkeys on Dragon stout. Catch a Fire 261: The ambulance chasers of the Fourth Estate had moved on [from reggae] to exploit the rumours about snuff movies [...] and punk rock.at ambulance-chaser, n.
Catch a Fire 276: Pulling onto the Island House grounds in the silver BMW (‘Lettars stand fe Bob Marley an’ Wailars’).at b.m.w., n.
Catch a Fire 57: She had been seduced by that old ‘bockra’ (white-skinned) ‘busha’ (overseer).at backra, adj.
Catch a Fire 70: Dere be a jing-bang balmyard [...] and a crowded Church dis Sabbath.at jing-bang, n.
Catch a Fire 210: Every ‘wappen-bappen’ (one-room hut constructed of miscellaneous scraps) in West Kingston emptied out.at wappen-bappen, n.
Catch a Fire 212: The Back-o-Wall section of the Dungle, a Rasta-dominated wappen-bappen’ village.at wappen-bappen, n.
Catch a Fire 240: A high grade of bellywash like Charley’s Old Jamaican Rum.at belly wash, n.
Catch a Fire 26: ‘Bloodclot’ (heathen, the term of opprobrium derived from both menstruation, and the cloth with which slaves cleansed themselves after vicious beatings).at blood claat, n.
Catch a Fire 254: They got ‘bringly’ (irritated) ta raas and commenced vexing something fierce.at bringly (adj.) under bringle, v.
Catch a Fire 193: ‘Wha’ yuh bringle [irritate] me wit’? Dis’ serious t’ing?’ The family was aghast at her arrogant, sacrilegious prattle.at bringle, v.
Catch a Fire 57: A dumb, ‘bungo-bessy’ (an adjective for unseemly conduct by a rural female) relationship.at bungo-bessy (n.) under bungo, adj.
Catch a Fire 74: Nesta was [...] to be packed off to Kingston on the next ‘bungo-bungo’ (country Bumpkin) bus.at bungo-bungo, adj.
Catch a Fire 225: Thir conversations led in due course to Bob ‘checking fe’ (seeking out) the one dread [...] who had actually stood shoulder to shoulder with Selassie.at check for (v.) under check, v.
Catch a Fire 113: The asthmatic white ‘chi-chi’ buses, the fancy, hydraulic, inter-city variety.at chee-chee, adj.
Catch a Fire 25: The smoking of ganja ‘spliffs’ [...] and herb-packed ‘chillums’ (water pipes).at chillum, n.
Catch a Fire 224: ‘Small Axe,’ another ‘cockaty’ (boastful) Perry salvo that warned the Big T’ree Jamaican studios that Upsetter Records new band [etc.].at cockaty, adj.
Catch a Fire 262: A keen-edged cutlass [...] and a full pipe of ‘collie weed’ (ganja).at collie, n.
(con. 1966) Catch a Fire 211: Rita [...] had had her hair conked and styled for the occasion [i.e. Haile Selassie’s visit to Jamaica].at conked, adj.
Catch a Fire 123: A place to have sex and sometimes even ‘cotch’ (sleep) for the evening.at cotch, v.2
Catch a Fire 57: Under a mantle of disgrace [...] for being so idiotic as to legally wed a ‘foo-foo’ (foolish) country waif.at foo-foo, adj.
Catch a Fire 57: A ‘foo-foo’ (foolish) country waif naïve enough to believe his ‘fuck-a-bush’ (backwoods seduction) talk of love!at fuck-a-bush (adj.) under fuck, v.
Catch a Fire 262: These fuck-a-bush ghetto rats [...] hum a few bars of some gully ditty, and they get sainted.at fuck-a-bush (adj.) under fuck, v.
Catch a Fire 127: The goon squads of the blustery, pistol-packing Alexander Bustamente.at goon squad (n.) under goon, n.1
(con. mid–1970s) Catch a Fire 255: The violent political tug–of–war between the JLP and the PNP that was being called ‘Heavy Manners’.at heavy manners, n.
Catch a Fire 223: Tripping down to the Odeon or the Bijou to catch the latest Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef horse operas.at horse opera (n.) under horse, n.
Catch a Fire 263: Manley was a virtual shoo–in [for election].at shoo-in, n.
(con. 1973) Catch a Fire 239: The Wailers were back on top. ‘Dem de joint in jamdung,’ as [...] DJ Don Topping put it.at Jamdung, n.
Catch a Fire 133: I cut de face a de mon wha’ jester me.at jester, v.
(con. 1973) Catch a Fire 239: The Wailers were back on top. ‘Dem de joint in jamdung,’ as [...] DJ Don Topping put it.at joint, n.
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