Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Of or pertaining to the West Indies; a native or inhabitant of the West Indies.
- Of or pertaining to the West Indies: used formerly, in a large sense, as equivalent to ‘American.’
- noun A native or inhabitant of the West Indies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or from the
West Indies - noun a person from the West Indies
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a native or inhabitant of the West Indies
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Examples
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The comments, in the online group that grew over a few days to some 1,200 members, were at times so offensive in referring to West Indian and African-American neighborhoods that some participants warned others to beware how their words might be taken in a public setting open to the department's Internal Affairs "rats."
NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM GLABERSON 2011
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But unless you're going to Jamaica, you might be shaking your booty to another kind of West Indian music besides reggae.
Bob Schulman: Gettin' Hip to Caribbean Music Bob Schulman 2010
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But unless you re going to Jamaica, you might be shaking your booty to another kind of West Indian music besides reggae.
Bob Schulman: Gettin' Hip to Caribbean Music Bob Schulman 2010
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Chances are you'll actually do all this -- but unless you're going to Jamaica, you might be shaking your booty to another kind of West Indian music.
Bob Schulman: Gettin' Hip to Caribbean Music Bob Schulman 2010
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Chances are you'll actually do all this -- but unless you're going to Jamaica, you might be shaking your booty to another kind of West Indian music.
Bob Schulman: Gettin' Hip to Caribbean Music Bob Schulman 2010
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You know, that's that kind of West Indian -- it's a combination of West Indian obsession with Africa, the most extreme ideas about getting out of the United States the way they were traditionally, in Afro-American life, and the obvious influence, one way or another, of the vision of Zionism which I don't think is very valuable for black Americans.
The All-American Skin Game, or the Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of it, 1990-1994 1996
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She glanced in the direction he pointed, noting the West Indian restaurants and food stores, as well as the primarily black pedestrians.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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She glanced in the direction he pointed, noting the West Indian restaurants and food stores, as well as the primarily black pedestrians.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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But there are also signs nearby that the predominately West Indian neighborhood is host to a unique, grass-roots community art scene.
Art Amid the Downturn Bruce Bennett 2011
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DVD & Blu-ray, UniversalDoc about the West Indian cricket team's heyday in the 1970s and 1980s.
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