See also: Shetty

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shetty (plural shetties)

  1. (MLE, slang) Alternative form of chete (knife)
    • 2023 December 5, Tir Dhondy, Exposing violent watch thieves and their young female 'spotters' (BBC News [1])
      "He went on to a back road where there was nobody there," he adds, "so what I did is, I pulled out the shetty [machete] on him… [It] was roughly 23 inches.