shotta

plural shottas

1. JamaicaslangAn armed gangster.

   Shottas may act as independent gunmen or may be under the rule of particular dons.

   2007, Brian Meeks, Culture, politics, race and diaspora: the thought of Stuart Hall

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   For example, a shotta from one street in the community had "cut up" another youth from their own avenue.

   2001, Donna P Hope, Inna di dancehall: popular culture and the politics of identity in Jamaica

   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.

   2005 June, Vibe, volume 13, number 7

1. abbreviationcontractionContraction of shot + of (a measure of alcohol)