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Definition of 'shotta'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (Jamaica|slang) An armed gangster.
  • * 2001 , Donna P Hope, Inna di dancehall: popular culture and the politics of identity in Jamaica
  • For example, a shotta from one street in the community had "cut up" another youth from their own avenue.
  • * 2005 , Vibe (volume 13, number 7, June 2005)
  • They go on an ID parade [a police lineup], and nobody identified them as being a shotta , so everything's clear. But we still baffi be careful.
  • * 2007 , Brian Meeks, Culture, politics, race and diaspora: the thought of Stuart Hall
  • Shottas may act as independent gunmen or may be under the rule of particular dons.

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