The act of being poor and unable to buy necessities such as food and proper clothing except for tribal t-shirts and floating caps (also known as mat caps). Yalaming usually also involves stealing food be it from your friends, classmates or the nearby provision shop. Usually when in the act of Yalaming, one would also steal some rokok (cigarettes). Yalaming also means getting your motorbike or skateboard that you either stole or bought using a loan from your friend that you will never return. Yalaming usually refers to Malays being themselves. Yalaming can also mean acting/being stupid as shit.
John:" Wow, look at Khairul yalaming all of Dans food! He doesn't have enough money to buy food but still can buy and smoke rokok! "
Lucas:" Well, what can we do? He is a malay after all. "
Khairul:" Eh abang (bro), spare me one rokok ah sia!"
Syafiq:" Eh sorry ah bro. I finish my last stick just now. Want to go yalaming from the nearby 7-11?"
Khairul:" Eh set ah! How many pack you want to steal? "
Faizal:" Eh abang look at my new bike! I customise by myself eh bro! Nice or not? "
Sam:" Eh fuck you la. Liar I saw you yalaming it off a primary one boy just now. "
Lucas:" Well, what can we do? He is a malay after all. "
Khairul:" Eh abang (bro), spare me one rokok ah sia!"
Syafiq:" Eh sorry ah bro. I finish my last stick just now. Want to go yalaming from the nearby 7-11?"
Khairul:" Eh set ah! How many pack you want to steal? "
Faizal:" Eh abang look at my new bike! I customise by myself eh bro! Nice or not? "
Sam:" Eh fuck you la. Liar I saw you yalaming it off a primary one boy just now. "
by Yalamster October 17, 2013
Is the meaning for people with really fat ass with the name khairul. These people modify their bikes and skatboard all day in your neighbourhood and disturb you by shouting at you saying ' Eh kau bodoh la sial' Something like that
by Slurpeer April 3, 2013
a group of idle losers playing soccer in your neighbourhood all day and making lots of noises. FYI, they are most of the time, black in colour.
thaddeus is a Yalam
by seraphy91 March 4, 2009
Yalam are people that likes to loiter around corridors and corners after school, while smoking and riding e-scooters.
by Yalamiscoolzz123 April 27, 2018
YALAM
Noun
1. A slang word for Malays in the South East Asia region.
Due to the negative connotation and mental imagery of Malays the word Yalam have became an insulting slur.
Such negative connotation are bumming a cigarette from anyone around them, trying to lend some money or items from others and not paying back, taking drugs at the stairs of HDB blocks, having unprotected sex with their girlfriends and spawning a billion mini Yalams that scream and run around neighbour hood areas, becoming glue sniffers between ages 6-14 and eventually graduating to full blown meth addiction, blaming chinese people for their poverty and laziness while expecting all chinese people to help them out, raping their own daughters, modifying their cheap motorbikes by strapping on an empty can of milo to their exhaust, skate boarding under void decks while disturbing everyone's sleep, playing their god awful guitar, going awol during their military services, being a food delivery man with a messiah complex while not knowing that they are actually pest to the society, riding their E-scooters or E-bikes dangerously at pedestrian's walkway and when they are called out, they get extremely primal and aggressive. Not able to hold on to a normal job or feed a family of 10 without handouts and aids. Basically being a burden and trash to society as a whole.
Yalam also can be use a verb, such as Yalaming.
Noun
1. A slang word for Malays in the South East Asia region.
Due to the negative connotation and mental imagery of Malays the word Yalam have became an insulting slur.
Such negative connotation are bumming a cigarette from anyone around them, trying to lend some money or items from others and not paying back, taking drugs at the stairs of HDB blocks, having unprotected sex with their girlfriends and spawning a billion mini Yalams that scream and run around neighbour hood areas, becoming glue sniffers between ages 6-14 and eventually graduating to full blown meth addiction, blaming chinese people for their poverty and laziness while expecting all chinese people to help them out, raping their own daughters, modifying their cheap motorbikes by strapping on an empty can of milo to their exhaust, skate boarding under void decks while disturbing everyone's sleep, playing their god awful guitar, going awol during their military services, being a food delivery man with a messiah complex while not knowing that they are actually pest to the society, riding their E-scooters or E-bikes dangerously at pedestrian's walkway and when they are called out, they get extremely primal and aggressive. Not able to hold on to a normal job or feed a family of 10 without handouts and aids. Basically being a burden and trash to society as a whole.
Yalam also can be use a verb, such as Yalaming.
Example of Noun usage.
John: Hey have you seen the news ?
Peter: Not yet, I have been busy working all day and being a productive member of society. what is up?
John: Afiq have been caught from awoling and smoking meth.
Peter: Damn there's nothing that a Yalam wouldn't do to satisfy his urges.
Example of verb usage of Yalaming.
Jake and Brandon are smoking while chatting about life. Ashraf walks up to the pair.
Ashraf: Sup Bangs, how is it going? Long time no talk you la sial!
Jake: Hey Ashraf.
Brandon: Yea what have you been up to?
Ashraf: Nothing la sial, just doing my food panda job. Wah now adays difficult ah government come up with so much stupid laws on E-bikes ah. Fuck la sial money tight bodoh.
Jake: Oh damn that sucks.
Brandon: Yea.
Ashraf : Eh bang, can give satu rokok?
Jake hands him one cigarette.
Ashraf: bang lighter.
Brandon hands him the lighter and Ashraf pockets the lighter after lighting his cigarette.
Ashraf: bang can also pinjam $50, need to buy diaper ah.
Jakes reluctantly hands him $50 dollars knowing that he will never see that money anymore.
Next day in the news, Ashraf have been arrested for buying crystal meth with the money that Jake loaned him.
Jake: yo you heard what happened to Ashraf?
Brandon: yea, he was caught Yalaming as hard as a yalam can yalam.
John: Hey have you seen the news ?
Peter: Not yet, I have been busy working all day and being a productive member of society. what is up?
John: Afiq have been caught from awoling and smoking meth.
Peter: Damn there's nothing that a Yalam wouldn't do to satisfy his urges.
Example of verb usage of Yalaming.
Jake and Brandon are smoking while chatting about life. Ashraf walks up to the pair.
Ashraf: Sup Bangs, how is it going? Long time no talk you la sial!
Jake: Hey Ashraf.
Brandon: Yea what have you been up to?
Ashraf: Nothing la sial, just doing my food panda job. Wah now adays difficult ah government come up with so much stupid laws on E-bikes ah. Fuck la sial money tight bodoh.
Jake: Oh damn that sucks.
Brandon: Yea.
Ashraf : Eh bang, can give satu rokok?
Jake hands him one cigarette.
Ashraf: bang lighter.
Brandon hands him the lighter and Ashraf pockets the lighter after lighting his cigarette.
Ashraf: bang can also pinjam $50, need to buy diaper ah.
Jakes reluctantly hands him $50 dollars knowing that he will never see that money anymore.
Next day in the news, Ashraf have been arrested for buying crystal meth with the money that Jake loaned him.
Jake: yo you heard what happened to Ashraf?
Brandon: yea, he was caught Yalaming as hard as a yalam can yalam.
by No Skin No Service March 14, 2023
T: Hey have we gotten feedback from her?
K: Nope
T: Oh no why so? Our report is due tomorrow
K: She's a yalam remember?
T: Ah right.. that's understandable
K: Nope
T: Oh no why so? Our report is due tomorrow
K: She's a yalam remember?
T: Ah right.. that's understandable
by Dthousandonetwu March 20, 2023
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