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What is a Yardie?

What is a Yardie? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Jamaica) A Jamaican.
  2. (chiefly Britain) a member of a Afro-Caribbean gang who engages in organized crime, especially drug trafficking
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Because there is no formal structure, Yardie gangs have little resemblance to organisations like the Mafia.
A SHERIFF yesterday confiscated drug money from a lapdancer and her Yardie associates after they failed to turn up at court to claim it back.
An armed police raid on a pub said to be a home to Yardie gangsters and drug dealers was praised yesterday.
Regulars were driven away from a Leeds pub by violent Yardie drug gangs who imposed a reign of terror, a police commander said yesterday.
Him lucky seh it wasn't a Jamaican parent that was holding that baby or there may well have been a true Yardie style lynching on dat rass flight.
Now the thing about being away from Yard, is that when you see another Yardie you look out for each other.

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