Yardie
noun
[ ˈjɑːdi ]
• (among Jamaicans) a fellow Jamaican.
• (in the UK) a member of a Jamaican or West Indian gang of criminals.
• "Yardie violence"
Yardie
adjective
• of or characteristic of Jamaicans.
• "comparison of cockney and Yardie slang"
Origin:
1980s: from Jamaican English yard ‘house, home’ (see yard2 (sense 4 of the noun)).
