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Patois
Aks: - Ask
 
Babylon: - the establishment, white society.
 
Badness: - hooligan behavior, violence for its own sake
 
bakra: - term used to describe members of the ruling class or slave master
 
Bald-Head : – a person without dreadlocks.
 
Bammy: - a pancake shaped, deep-fried cassava bread. Bammy is commonly served with fried fish.
 
Bandulu Bizness: – some kind of fraud or racket.
 
Bashment: – a party or a dance.
 
Batty: – Bottom or backside
 
Batty bwoy : – a gay person.
 
Bawl: - to call out in anguish or to cry.
 
Beenie: - Little
 
Bex: - vex or vexed
 
Blood Clat: - curse word
 
Boasie : – Proud, conceited. Boastful.
 
Bobo Dread: - A Rastafarian follower of Prince Emanuel Edwards.
 
Bomba: - commonly used abusive term, usually paired with clawt, as in “Get de bomba-clawt car out mi way!”
 
Box : – to hit or punch.
 
Bredren: - a male friend.
 
Brinks: - title given to a man who is supplying a woman with money
 

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