rudeboy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A male juvenile delinquent, originally in Jamaica in the 1960s.
noun
A male enthusiast of ska music.
Example Sentences
- "Leppo had been a rudeboy since his teens, earning his first three-month jail rap for vagrancy in 1971."
- "I still use the word rudeboy cos it’s been round for longer. People’re always tryin to stick a label on our scene. That’s the problem with havin a fuckin scene. First we was rudeboys, then we be Indian niggas, then rajamuffins, then raggastanis, Britasians, fuckin Indobrits."
- "We were shooting in Pittsburgh, and there were some rudeboys looking at us, like [agonisingly broad Jamaican accent]: “Ya shoodent be shoe-ting ere.” So we’re driving around in this grim area of Pittsburgh and I start talking in this over-the-top Jamaican accent."
- "Since I was a teenager I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private school."
- "Few brands have been tussled over as hard by competing subcultures. From tennis nuts to Jamaican rudeboys, skinheads, mods, ska-punks, indie kids and Camden popstars, all have done the Perry polo before Proud Boys came along."
- ""I swear I've watched as much MTV Base an Juggy D videos as they have, but I still can't attain the right level a rudeboy finesse," bemoans Jas."