Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
Yardie .
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Examples
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Today London has worse property crime than New York, the diamond geezers have been succeeded by Jamaican drug gangs — "Yardies" with Uzis — and if you take the East London Line to Whitechapel for a pint at the Blind Beggar, remember that since the July 7 bombings the metropolitan police have had a shoot-to-kill policy on the tube.
An Old-School Copper 2005
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Today London has worse property crime than New York, the diamond geezers have been succeeded by Jamaican drug gangs — "Yardies" with Uzis — and if you take the East London Line to Whitechapel for a pint at the Blind Beggar, remember that since the July 7 bombings the metropolitan police have had a shoot-to-kill policy on the tube.
An Old-School Copper 2005
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Today London has worse property crime than New York, the diamond geezers have been succeeded by Jamaican drug gangs — "Yardies" with Uzis — and if you take the East London Line to Whitechapel for a pint at the Blind Beggar, remember that since the July 7 bombings the metropolitan police have had a shoot-to-kill policy on the tube.
An Old-School Copper 2005
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Green turned informant and was able to supply Met detectives with a wealth of information about "Yardies" (Jamaican gangsters), who at that time were beginning to usurp British-born black gangs.
The Policeman's Blog 2010
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Green turned informant and was able to supply Met detectives with a wealth of information about "Yardies" (Jamaican gangsters), who at that time were beginning to usurp British-born black gangs.
The Policeman's Blog 2010
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Green turned informant and was able to supply Met detectives with a wealth of information about "Yardies" (Jamaican gangsters), who at that time were beginning to usurp British-born black gangs.
The Policeman's Blog 2010
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Hopkins later wrote another letter to his partner asking her to change her statement and add that one of the Yardies went into the flat.
What price a trans woman’s life? In 1997 in London it was £500 2009
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Maybe it was a three way meet: Mob Colombians and perhaps the Triads or the Yakuza, even the Yardies.
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* The Jamaican influence has certainly been pernicious in London: large parts of Jamaica seem to be in meltdown _ and the uncontrolled immigration into this country of Yardies and their families too, has ratcheted up the level of hardness expected of young black _ and white _ boys.
British Racists Must Be Condemned Newmania 2007
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* The Jamaican influence has certainly been pernicious in London: large parts of Jamaica seem to be in meltdown _ and the uncontrolled immigration into this country of Yardies and their families too, has ratcheted up the level of hardness expected of young black _ and white _ boys.
British Racists Must Be Condemned Newmania 2007
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