What is "jamaican"

Usage examples of "jamaican".

Lotario Thugut was in the habit of going there after the last shift at the telegraph office, and dawn often found him drinking Jamaican punch and playing the accordion with the crews of madmen from the Antillean schooners.

Lacking a traditional organized crime network, it had become the battleground of a drug war among competing groups: Jamaicans, Haitians, New York elements, and home-grown Washingtonians competing for the lucrative trade to service the insatiable demand of the Beltway professionals.

So the Ogilvie and StClair families were united by marriage, one of the descendants married a Tebbit giving a Jamaican Tebbit line, the other giving a straight line to Winston Sinclair.

If Saint Andrews was known for anything, it was for its cuisine: the inhabitants claimed to have been jerking chickens before the Jamaicans, currying goats before the Trinidadians, frying flying fish before the Bajans.

Jamaican troubadour-polemicists, Banana Bird, Cool Runnings, Yellowbelly, live in Bryant Park and on shoulder-high boomboxes up and down Broadway.

Finally, he moved over to the end of a row of heavy built-in bookcases, filled with mystery novels, DVDs, and small Jamaican carvings.

Bridgetown Grill was hotter still, flaring with the spit and sizzle of Jamaican cooking in the open kitchen that ran the length of the narrow gallery painted with palm trees and crowded by fast-talking dental hygienists whose glasses kept steaming up, and by white rastas whose dreads drabbled through their blackened fish and hot sauce unnoticed.

Henry Meachem, the pirate whose crews had interbred with Carib and Jamaican women, thereby populating the island, and whose treasure was the focal point of many tall tales.

The Jamaican smiled, his bright teeth catching the light from the careening reflections through the windshield.

Embarrassed Swedish officials cast such an eagle eye over subsequent races that champions Gwen Torrence and Maria Mutola and the Jamaican 4 x 400m relay team were all disqualified in their various events for lane violations far more mild than Perec's.

The Jamaicans were then disqualified for a lane infringement and , Australia got the bronze.

Away from the center, but not far away, where the buildings were meaner and the streets were narrower, the sea evidenced itself differently: a grim redlight district of slum houses, empty warehouses where bonded goods had once been stored, pubs with maritime names, cleared areas fronted with advertising posters selling Jamaican rum and airlines to America.

Her heritage was a combination of Jamaican and Gullah, and at the moment she was making jerk chicken, seeding a Scotch bonnet pepper she held carefully by the stem.

A Jamaican woman in an Annie Oakley buckskin dress shrieked, fired a six-gun cap pistol.

He spoke English, Spanish and French to the class of North American and Jamaican blacks, Eastern European whites and Central Americans.