Mandem

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A group of men or boys; male friends or fellow gang members. Multicultural-London-English, plural, plural-only

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole man dem (“men”). Equivalent to man + them.

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