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Wiktionary
n. A variant spelling of '''Yardie'''
WordNet
n. member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence; "A much publicized raid on a yardie stronghold had first been simulated at Riot City"
Wikipedia
Yardie (or Yawdie) is a term derived from the Jamaican patois for home or "yard". Persons of Jamaican origin thus came to be known as Yardies, particularly within the Caribbean expatriate community outside Jamaica.
Yardie was the first novel by Jamaican-born British writer Victor Headley, published in London in 1992 by Dotun Adebayo's X Press. As described by Goodreads: "Yardie is, quite simply, a literary sensation in England. Originally published by X Press, a two-man operation, the book was produced on a desktop computer and distributed through unusual channels: it was sold at clothing shops, hairdressers, and even on top of over-turned dumpsters outside of nightclubs. On word of mouth alone, Yardie has sold over twelve thousand copies."
The novel borrows its title from yardie, a term stemming from the slang name originally given to occupants of "government yards"—social housing projects with very basic amenities, and is based on the fictional story a young Jamaican's rise from the streets of London to the top of the drug-dealing underworld, .
Usage examples of "yardie".
Blue Mountains and Jamaica is shrinking to a small green dot on the turquoise Caribbean and there is a smell of perfume from Miss Jamaica, only Miss Jamaica is a Trench Town Yardie and he looks like one of the killers in the woods.
Advance troops of the yardie gangs that were once again trying to push across the river on to Turkish turf.
I toyed with fantasy images of armed Jamaican Yardies waiting for us at the airport, maybe even Jamaican police arresting me because of some story concocted by Uncle Robert.
Do you have to pretend that multiculturalism is an unmitigated blessing, or that we were a race of grey mice until rap music and Yardies and sushi came along to cheer us up?