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  • noun Plural form of Yardie.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Maybe it was a three way meet: Mob Colombians and perhaps the Triads or the Yakuza, even the Yardies.

    Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

  • * 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

  • * 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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