Tropical Rythms's definitions

Pill

Jamaican slang

To persuade or convince someone to do something. To trick someone.

Pill yah try fi pill man?

My girl a pill yah give me! You issa wicked piece of gal.

by Tropical Rythms December 13, 2021

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

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

Suck yah mother

Vulgar - very strong curse term in Caribbean cultures.

Go suck yah mother!

Ah fool you take badman for?

by Tropical Rythms December 6, 2021

Inna

Colloquial way of saying in/into in Jamaica.

Possibly Origin in + a

It fell in a bag. It fell inna bag.

The teacher (is) inna the classroom.

How much money you want inna US dollars?
Invest inna you woman.

(I) Me live inna the Bronx.

by Tropical Rythms December 7, 2021

Mr. Take-it-back

A man that takes back the stuff he gives to a woman after a break-up or when she becomes an enemy of his.

You sound like a Mr. Take-it-back.

by Tropical Rythms October 11, 2019

Whole heap of

Whole heap of/a - a lot of something, a ton of something

Term :Jamaican

Whole heap of people think aliens are living among us.

by Tropical Rythms December 6, 2021