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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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noun
A ghost or spirit, often appearing in the form of a dog barking or howling through the night.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Caribbean, Jamaica
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: jumbie
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A drawn game of noughts and crosses (in Jamaica tii-taa-tuo).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Jamaica
Topics: games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To kill; to murder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English, transitive
Synonyms: annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bump off, bury, cack, compromised to a permanent end, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, ex, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, grease, knock off, lay waste to, make away with, merc, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, pop off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put someone out of their misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, shut up, slay, slaughter, slime out, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, stop someone's clock, take, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, top off, top, torpedo, take care of, take down, take out, waste, wax, wet, whack, wipe out, wreck
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To excel in.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English, broadly, transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Jamaica, circa 18th century. From Bube dupe (“ghost”) (compare Akan adɔpe).
