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Yards in the City of Kingston choose

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[WI] E. Brodber Yards in the City of Kingston 31: Young men are at the fence talking of football, cricket and VD and smoking ‘highly’.
at highly, n.
[WI] E. Brodber Yards in the City of Kingston 41: Since courting cannot take place in the yard but will take place, it must be outside of it. [...] in rural Jamaica, it is ‘taking your rudeness to bush.’.
at rudeness, n.
[WI] E. Brodber Yards in the City of Kingston 42: The music is reggae or ska and can be danced to as a waltz or skanking.
at skank, v.
[WI] E. Brodber Yards in the City of Kingston 34: Kidoo is not even allowed to wear a ‘soul’ hairdo as this is not respectable.
at soul, adj.1
[WI] E. Brodber Yards in the City of Kingston 1: We heard such phrases as ‘the people in the yard would ....’, ‘the people in the yard did ...’.
at yard, n.2
[WI] D. Howard Kingston x: The never ending parade of street characters like Elephant, who was a big tree man; and Bag O Wire, who had betrayed Marcus Garvey.
at bag-o-wire (n.) under bag, n.1
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