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Style

To style a person -
Jamaican slang - to disrespect a person/ thing or treat them in an unfair way.
Yo! Dawg! If you style the thing, yah know you in big trouble.

Bob: Eats his slice of cake and goes back to eat his friend's slice.

Peter: Don't try style me, my yute. You already had yours.
by Tropical Rythms October 11, 2019
mugGet the Stylemug.

Blouse and skirt

Swearing with terms that refer to clothes are quite common in the Jamaican dialect.

Blouse and skirt is a swear word used by elders!

Equivalent:Damn, Frigging!

Other swear words that mention the use of clothes are bloodcloth, pussycloth, rasscloth, bombocloth (all pronounced clart or claat in Patois).
Yo blouse and skirt!leave people pickeney alone
by Tropical Rythms December 12, 2021
mugGet the Blouse and skirtmug.

Shot

Jamaican

Slang non-variable

Refers to something awesome, great, phenomenal.

Mostly used to describe food, music, parties.
The party shot!

The food, it shot man!
by Tropical Rythms December 11, 2021
mugGet the Shotmug.

Redz

A lightskin male in Jamaica.

Female equivalent browning.
Yo, link redz 'bout the bike, bredda.
by Tropical Rythms December 10, 2021
mugGet the Redzmug.

Bona fide

Jamaican dialect

Refers to something or someone who is genuine or sincere.

Origin

From the Latin bonā fidē, the ablative case of bona fidēs.
She a my bona fide.

That's my bona fide friend right there.
by Tropical Rythms December 9, 2021
mugGet the Bona fidemug.

What's the scheweppes?

Jamaican greeting
Similar to what's up, what's popping or what's happening used with friends in a casual setting.

Origin: from the two grapefruit soft drinks sold in Jamaica, Ting and Schweppes. The term ‘ting’ functions as a brand name and also a slang word meaning ‘thing’. Thus the phrase “you know the ting/schewppes” means “you know how things are/you know the situation”. Given the similarity between the two grapefruit drinks, “Ting” and “Schweppes” are used synonymously.
What's the scheweppes? Heard bare hot gals coming to the party later. You coming, fam?
by Tropical Rythms August 8, 2020
mugGet the What's the scheweppes?mug.

Fi

Colloquial way of saying for in the Jamaica. Can also be used to replace the word 'to' in a sentence.

In other Caribbean dialects fah, fa etc
How come you still haven't come fi the car?

You have fi call a bit earlier.

Also has/have + fi become haffi in fast spoken speech.

You haffi tell the truth.
by Tropical Rythms December 6, 2021
mugGet the Fimug.

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