shotta
English
Etymology
From shooter.
Pronunciation
Audio (AU): (file)
Noun
shotta (plural shottas)
- (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, Vibe (volume 13, number 7, June 2005)
- 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.