What is "rasta"

Usage examples of "rasta".

From where she was standing, Peta could hear her Rasta friend Jimmy and his buddies playing soca on the steel drums that lined the fringes of Tanteen Park, which lay directly below her.

Below her, the Rasta who lived behind Bronze House tucked his dreadlocks into his turban and strode into the Caribbean for his morning bath.

She took her pendant out of her safe-deposit box, pocketed it, and headed toward Morne Rouge and her Rasta friend, Ralphie Levine.

A mop-headed Rasta groupie with a tubular stoned look watched, and a coyote with a kelp mane howled with his head thrown back.

Peta could hear her Rasta friend Jimmy and his buddies playing soca on the steel drums that lined the fringes of Tanteen Park, which lay directly below her.

With his dreads and his moccasins, he looked every inch the Rasta dealer.

Jasper the Rasta was bad enough, he had been hanging with him for a while now but, coupled with the Williams boys, it was a catastrophe of fucking Olympian proportions.

On certain days, he took it upon himself to wear the Rasta colours and, like a walking flag of Ethiopia, he would wander around Brixton market like a king.

He was a poster boy Rasta and his own authenticity was what had alerted Spider to the fact he was a fake.

Not the big man with the rasta do, but the slender green-clad fairy he had glimpsed last evening on the porch of Skinny House.

And there, two strides away, was a grown black man in a rasta do, just like Mack described him.

I mean, if a regular-looking homeless person with a rasta do can be a fairy.

Tank Top took me and the Rasta youth upstairs to a grotty corridor, and the strip search began.

If that was the case, then the Rasta youth had a prayer shawl and a Torah for Central to deal with.

Marlowe had hardly met the old rasta, but even he could feel a sense of outrage.