a member of a group of lower- or working-class teenagers in the 1960s, noted for listening to ska music and for juvenile delinquency: they inspired the later rude-boy fashion in Britain. Also called: rudie, rudy, rudi.
Rude boys were the name given to a subculture of young street corner hoodlums, gangsters and other unemployables. In emigrating to England, the rude boys helped spread Jamaican music to the working-class skinheads, another youth subculture.
rude boy in British English
noun. 1. ( in Britain) a member of a group of often delinquent teenagers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, noted for listening to ska music and wearing suits with trilby or similar soft felt hats.
Borosie: (translation : Rude person / jerk) A person that. acts rude. -
A '90s vocal group from Cleveland, the Rude Boys are making some headway on both the pop and Urban Contemporary fronts. Larry Marcus, Melvin Sephus, and brothers Edward Lee Banks and Joe Little III were discovered by Levert, who helped get them signed to Atlantic.
Although a Rude Boy today can be spotted on the streets of London or in the clubs in Singapore, the first Rude Boys are traced to a group of young men from the shanties of Kingston, Jamaica. The Rude Boy emerged after Jamaica attained independence from a more than two centuries-long British rule.
Though original Rude Boys members Larry Marcus died in 2016 and Banks passed away in late 2020, The Rude Boys continue to tour with its new lineup: Little, Keni Myles and G. LaBeaud.
Bumbaclart is a Jamaican slang word that is often used to express surprise or shock. It can also be an insult or a curse word. It literally means “ass cloth” or “toilet paper”
The term batiman (or battyman) is also used in Belize owing to the popularity of Jamaican music there. The term derives from the Jamaican slang word batty, which refers to buttocks. It is a slur and considered offensive. Certain forms of Jamaican music feature both homophobic and extremely violent themes.
On this page you'll find 279 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rude, such as: abusive, blunt, boorish, coarse, crude, and ignorant.
◊ In British English, a man who is a bit of a lad does things that are considered a bit wild, such as getting drunk and having sexual relations with many women. He was a bit of a lad until he settled down.
pretty boy in British English
(ˈprɪtɪ bɔɪ ) noun. informal, derogatory. if you describe a man as a pretty boy, you are suggesting he is not very manly and too interested in his appearance.
Forms of rudeness include acting inconsiderate, insensitive, deliberately offensive, impolite, obscenity, profanity and violating taboos such as deviancy.
Ma yute. Americans say “bro” and British people say “bruv”, while Jamaicans say “ma yute”.
Goodaz – a reference to a sexy woman/girl.
The word gyal is used in a variety of ways in Jamaican culture. It can be used as an expression of endearment, as in the phrase baby gyal. It can also be used to refer to a woman in a sexual way, or simply to mean girl.
“Blood clot” in Jamaican is actually a bad word that many locals use. The term derives from “blood cloth,” but when Jamaican pronounces “cloth,” it sounds like “clot,” hence “blood clot.”
Definition of 'clart'
1. mud; dirt. 2. a dirty person.
Masataka Kubota as Smoky, leader of Rude Boys.
The Rude Boys are a Minneapolis-St. Paul band formed in 1980 by Bob Pates, Chris Johnson, Dan Lapinsky, Jim Corcoran and Peter Nelson. Roger Lynn joined the band several years later. Heavily influenced by reggae and ska, the Rude Boys played a wide variety of reggae, blues, rock and pop-flavored tunes.
( ruder comparative) ( rudest superlative ) 1 adj When people are rude, they act in an impolite way towards other people or say impolite things about them.
(ˈruːdɪ ) noun. a rude boy or, specifically, a member of a youth movement originating in Jamaica in the 1960s. Collins English Dictionary.