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An Indian that lives in Chatsworth, Merebank or Phoenix part of Durban, South Africa. A Thumbie has a fake gold tooth, talks in a bad Indian accent, too much gel in their hair, has a skin complexion that is darker than midnight, goes to the beach and swims with boxer shorts, uses a lot of slang, uses Vans, Life, Echo clothing/footwear. Thumbies are also sometimes seen carrying a face cloth. They listen to 2pac or slow R&B music, drive small cars as if they are ferrari's, fight with anyone who bumps them by mistake, think they the shit when they actually just shit.
Normal Indian guy: "Look at that guy with the gold tooth".
Me: "Yeah, he is definately a Thumbie".
Thumbie by Hazard17 May 7, 2013
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A Thumbie is a specific type of Indian person from Durban, South Africa only.
A Thumbie:
-lives in Chatsworth, Phoenix or Merebank of Durban, South Africa (rarely in other areas)
-talks in a bad Indian accent
-uses a lot of local slang when talking (often mispronounced)
-uses an excessive amount of hair gel
-uses Vans, Echo or Life clothing/shoes and in some cases a gold chain (Note: when wearing a golfer a Thumbie will wear the chain outside of the shirt and around the collar)
-has a dark skin tone
-has a gold tooth/teeth
-drives a VW Golf 1 or a Toyota Corolla both with a modified sound system
-picks a fight with people over small issues (gangster mentality)
-listens to deep house music, old R&B, 2pac or any gangster music.
-is ratchet or close to being ratchet
-mainly talks about drinking, fighting, cars, soccer (Manchester United & Liverpool only) and insult people by picking on the person's mother
There are few other traits that make an Indian a Thumbie that are not mentioned, but usually it is something that is ratchet
A Thumbie has all or most of these traits. An Indian with 1 or 2 of these traits MAY NOT be regarded as a Thumbie. Thumbie behaviour is obviously cool to Thumbies when it is actually not. As a result, it is hard to take Thumbies seriously. They are basically a joke
*important* There are normal Indians in South Africa, it is only a certain percentage of Indians that are the Thumbies
Normal Indian guy 1: Check out that guy blasting 2pac in his VW Golf 1.
Normal Indian guy 2: Yes, he is definitely a Thumbie.
Thumbie by StormDog December 2, 2014
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Typically a dark skinned indian living in areas of South Africa such as Phoenix, Chatsworth and Westville. Thumbies typically wear Superga shoes with jeans or shorts and collared shirts. You can generally recognise a thumbie from the massive amounts of gel in his hair which is being shined on by the sun. Thumbies love the sport volleyball and are always ready for it (usually keeping their volleyball shorts underneath their school pants). A Thumbies family usually include gay/bi-sexual cousins. Or a mother that is never there. There may also be an alcoholic aunt who likes to drive over dogs.
White guy "Bru, do you see all the gel in that guys hair?"
Indian guy "Yeah, he's a thumbie man."
Thumbie by 17283p September 13, 2014

thumbie war 

A name Philadelphians give to the game commonly known as "Thumb War". In Philly, a "Thumb War" is a game where two or more people take turns jabbing each other in the eye with their thumbs. The winner is determined by the amount of mucus on their thumb.
Jimmy was shocked when he challenged Damon to a Thumb War and Damon quickly thrust his thumb into his eye. Damon explained that only weak people play Thumbie War.
thumbie war by twothumbsup November 27, 2010

Thumbie cars 

This defines the cars that thumbies drive. It is usually a Toyota corolla or vw golf. Most of these cars are found chatsworth, phoenix and merebank areas of durban. They include but are not limited to;
Vw mk1 golf ; This car is renowned for its thumbie status. Thumbies usually change the engines in these cars for 2.0l 16v/8v variants and are found at umgeni road and blue lagoon on Friday and Saturday night showing off with their friends and racing other thumbies on public roads
Toyota corolla/runx; mainly a rxi 20v / RSI 20v/Toyota gli twincam 16v / runx rsi, which are owned by majority of thumbies. These thumbies belong to car groups and are constantly arguing on who's Toyota is faster. They will go to such an extent to say that their cars beat m3s and complete the 1/4 mile in 13-14 seconds
Vw golf gti; mk5,6,7. This is a rich thumbies car, usually in the colour red or white. These thumbies are always seen with a girl in the passenger seat with gold teeth or tinted hair.
Saegren and his friends have a " Thumbie cars"
Thumbie cars by Rahul P November 17, 2020

Cross-Thumbing 

Cross-Thumbing is a technique developed by Dr. Mark Ringwald PhD. and Dr. Nick Pollack PhD. at their video gaming ergonomic laboratories at Brandeis University. The technique is mostly applied when playing the Nazi Zombie segment of "Call of Duty: World at War". The technique consists of controlling the right thumb stick of an XBox 360 controller with one's left thumb while the right thumb is occupied with pressing one of the four buttons above the right thumb stick. The crossing over of the left thumb across the center of the controller, and in said gaming application is most useful while rebuilding barriers in the zombie level's windows to slow down the flow of zombies in the house. The technique allows the player to repair said barrier as well as aim and dispatch targets within the level.
Holly shit Doo, did you see that fucking sick cross-Thumbing stabbing action on that mother fucker? I cut his fucking dome off, NOOCH!!!!!
A sexual maneuver used to enhance the doggy style position whereby, without notice during vigorous pussy stoking action, the male licks his thumb and inserts it two knuckles deep into the girl's anus. May induce intense bucking and loud shrills which merely enhance the experience.
Rachel was bucking like a bronco last night when I surprised her with a thumber.
Thumber by Eaton Holgoode April 26, 2017
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