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Backing your fist

(Vulgar) Jamaican slang
Refers to the act of pulling the penis back and forth with the hand in the shape of a fist, usually till ejaculation occurs.

To masturbate or jerk off
Everyday, a big man like you just stays at your yard, backing your fist. Waste man style that, dawg!
by Tropical Rythms August 2, 2020
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Mumma Lashy

Mumma Lashy (Mamma beater)

A Jamaican children's game where one child plays the role of an angry mother or granny trying to catch and spank the other children whose role is to escape and avoid getting lashed.

(Offensive) refers to a woman/effeminate man that complains a lot, like a typical angry granny would.

Possible Origin- A women's name Lashy: A female that complains/argues a lot

Also Lash: A wip used to spank a person
Mumma Lashy a-coming and we're not running fast enough.

Babes, Lately, you've become a mumma Lashy. I swear yo!
by Tropical Rythms August 2, 2020
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Kiss me neck

Jamaican miild swear term used mostly out of surprise.

Possibly Origin from kiss my arse (or a body part)
Kiss me neck! The man crashed, now he's dead!
by Tropical Rythms December 12, 2021
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One bag of

One bag of something (non-standard) refers to a huge amount of something, or a whole heap/lot of something in the Jamaican dialect. It's use is not just limited to things. It can be used with people or even animals.

In colloquial speech the word of is elided and becomes identical to 'a/ah.
One bag of ants outside under the bench.

One bag of unknown numbers keep calling me.

One bag of hungry-belly pickneys live over Miss Janey yard.
by Tropical Rythms December 7, 2021
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Irish Potato

Irish potato in the Jamaican dialect refers to the solanum tuberosum, a cultivated potato known for its starchy tubers.

Although Irish potatoes are not Irish – they are white potatoes from South America which are forever associated with an infamous potato-disease famine in Ireland.
Yes, girl. Irish potatoes taste wicked in your gravy!

The price of Irish potatoes has skyrocketed. down town.
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by Tropical Rythms December 11, 2021
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Accoutrements

Very used in the Jamaican dialect

The initial ac is usually dropped in fast spoken speech reducing it to coutrements (couchements)
COUNTABLE NOUN usually plural
Accoutrements are all the things you have with you when you travel or when you take part in a particular activity.
humorous, or old-fashioned

Commonwealth spelling of accouterments

An article of clothing or equipment, in particular when used as an accessory.
Synonyms: equipment, gear, trappings, accessory
The yard is full of accoutrements. Daddy can hardly find where to walk.
by Tropical Rythms March 5, 2022
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A

In Jamaica a lot of word reduction takes place.

A used like this is usually a reduction from a longer sentence.

The use in non-standard.
A tree.

A one car that? Reduction inversion

Is that (one) a car?
A in most cases is used as a susbtitute for the third person singular- it is, she/he is.

Eg. A tree- Reduction from it is a tree.

A my girl, that. Reduction inversion from she is my girl (that one)
A Shensea. (Introduction)

My name is Shensea. I'm a woman, Shensea.

The I and a woman are removed and one is left with a + the name.
by Tropical Rythms December 7, 2021
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