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armed | shotta |

As an adjective armed

is equipped, especially with a weapon.

As a verb armed

is past tense of arm.

As a noun shotta is

an armed gangster.

armed

English

Etymology 1

See the verb .

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (sometimes, in combination) Equipped, especially with a weapon.
    • nuclear-armed
  • (of a weapon) Prepared for use; loaded.
  • (obsolete) Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.
  • * De Foe
    • a distemper eminently armed from heaven
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (arm)

    • Etymology 2

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • (chiefly, in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.
  • Coloured in a different tincture from the beast or bird itself.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

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    shotta

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Jamaica, slang) An armed gangster.
  • * 2001 , Donna P Hope, Inna di dancehall: popular culture and the politics of identity in Jamaica
    • For example, a shotta from one street in the community had "cut up" another youth from their own avenue.
  • * 2005 , Vibe (volume 13, number 7, June 2005)
    • They go on an ID parade [a police lineup], and nobody identified them as being a shotta , so everything's clear. But we still baffi be careful.
  • * 2007 , Brian Meeks, Culture, politics, race and diaspora: the thought of Stuart Hall
    • Shottas may act as independent gunmen or may be under the rule of particular dons.

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