yardie

yardie
n Jamaican
a.
a member of a secret Jamaican crime-syndicate or gang, said to operate in Britain and the USA since the late 1980s
b.
a person from Jamaica or the Caribbean. In Jamaica itself the term has had this more generalised meaning, it comes from the use of yard to denote Jamaica or someone's home (probably deriving from 'my own backyard').

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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