shotta

English

Etymology

From shooter.

Pronunciation

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Noun

shotta (plural shottas)

1. (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 June, Vibe, volume 13, number 7:

     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.

Anagrams

• Shatto, atshot, so that

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English shooter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃata/
• Hyphenation: sho‧tta

Noun

shotta (plural shotta dem, quantified shotta)

1. An armed gangster ; a gunman.

   Synonym: gunman

   Beware cause de shotta dem strap. Rastaman a tell de yutes dem fi low de Glock.

   Be careful. The gangsters are strapped. We Rastas are telling the youngsters not to touch the Glock.

See also

• gun bwoy
• gunman
• thugs