shottaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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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.

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短縮形

shotta

1. Contraction of shot +‎ of (a measure of alcohol)

アナグラム

• Shatto, atshot, so that