mandem
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 11
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- 14
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- 6
Definition of mandem
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Multicultural-London-English, plural, plural-only)A group of men or boys; male friends or fellow gang members.
“The mandem all used to go round there and get head off her, the sister blowing the man line by line while her brother shotted downstairs in the stairwell.”
“She probably heard some hyped up version from the mandem but she don't know the truth. She ain't seen what I seen.”
“[…] reports suggest he may have had links to that group and allied north London gangs such as the Broadwater Farm Posse and Tottenham Mandem.”
“But you see my man over there with the pouch Dare one of you man try get loud All of my mandem move so foul”
“The mandem too inconsiderate, five-star hotel, smokin' cigarette / Mixin' codeine up with the Phenergan”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Jamaican Creole man dem (“men”). Equivalent to man + them.
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