Yardie

See also: yardie

English

Alternative forms

• yardie

Etymology

From Yard +‎ -ie.

Noun

Yardie (plural Yardies)

1. (Jamaica) A Jamaican.
2. (chiefly British) A member of an Afro-Caribbean gang who engages in organized crime, especially drug trafficking.
   • 2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch (motion picture), spoken by Sol (Lennie James):

     You are a bad-boy yardie, and bad-boy yardies are supposed to know how to get rid of bodies.

Derived terms

• Yardie squad

Further reading

• Yardie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• e-diary, yerida

Jamaican Creole

Noun

Yardie (plural Yardie dem, quantified Yardie)

1. Alternative form of yardie