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Shotta vs Shotty - What's the difference?

shotta | shotty |

As nouns the difference between shotta and shotty

is that shotta is an armed gangster while shotty is a gauzeless pipe for smoking cannabis, more like a Vietnamese Duc Lau than a bong.

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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    shotty

    English

    Noun

    (shotties)
  • A gauzeless pipe for smoking cannabis, more like a Vietnamese Duc Lau than a bong.
  • (slang) A shotgun.
  • (slang, uncountable) buckshot