Tropical Rythms's definitions

Yam head

Yamhead - a girl who settles for less in a relationship. Sleeps with a guy who has no interest in her and claims she's madly in love.

All the one Beverly, she a real yam head yah know.

Yeah man, you can see that from afar.

by Tropical Rythms December 6, 2021

Aircake

Jamaican slang (humorous) no food, usually used as answer to the question what yah gonna eat?

The idea is about a cake made from air, that one cannot see.

What are you gonna have for lunch today?

Aircake!

by Tropical Rythms December 15, 2021

Green

From the colour green which is usually associated with putrid stuff, bad breath or rotten food in the Caribbean.

Sobaco in Latin America

Why yah smell so green? Go bathe yourself man!

You arm's green like lime bredda. Go buy q roll-on (deoderant) man!

by Tropical Rythms December 7, 2021

Run a boat

We go run a boat later in Caribbean slang refers to cooking.

Yo!Brethen me hungry, yah know.

No worry yahself man! We go run a boat soon. Zeen?

by Tropical Rythms December 6, 2021

Baggy

A type of loose fitting underwear just as the word suggests.

Shortening of a baggy underwear or a granny panty; any underwear.

Usage rural Jamaica

She, she! She have the gun inna baggy. Mind she shoots you with it.

by Tropical Rythms December 11, 2021

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

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