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Etymology

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Clipping of machete

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chete (plural chetes)

  1. (MLE, slang) knife, especially one used as a weapon.
    Synonyms: jook, jooker, ching, ying, rambo, poker, pokey, bassy, shank, nank, splash, splasher, cheffer, cutter
    • 2018 August 25, (1011) Eleven X (Splash) Russ X Taze, here Taze (lyrics and music), “Anti”, 2:50–57:
      Loo, known to go skits, skits
      Big long chete, tryna fling it at melons
      If I stab kids, kids
      Then who the fuck did it on Teron
    • 2021 September 13, Kage X Spooks X NoToss X Tragic (lyrics and music), “The Race”, 1:10–1:13:
      Niggas like talk like they getting this chetter
      Get caught, getting bust, do better!
    • 2022 August 1, “Moroccan Tea” (0:18 from the start), 8 OLANNA (lyrics):
      I was 15 with the longest shetty
      Back then I was called youngest shetty
      Back then your favourite rapper on telly
      Was at home just watchin telly

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chete

  1. feminine plural of cheto

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old English ċēte, Anglian form of *ċīete, ċȳte.[1]

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chete

  1. (hapax) cottage[2]
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  1. ^ M. T. Löfvenberg (1944) “An Etymological Note”, in Studia Neophilologica[1], volume 17, number 2, →DOI, pages 259-265
  2. ^ chēte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

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chete

  1. Alternative form of achete

Etymology 3

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chete

  1. Alternative form of chet