Shetty

name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of chete (“knife”). Multicultural-London-English, alt-of, alternative, slang

    ""He went on to a back road where there was nobody there," he adds, "so what I did is, I pulled out the shetty [machete] on him… [It] was roughly 23 inches."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Kannada.

Synonyms

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bassyborerchefferchingchopcutter

Example

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""He went on to a back road where there was nobody there," he adds, "so what I did is, I pulled out the shetty [machete] on him… [It] was roughly 23 inches."

Etymology

Borrowed from Kannada ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ (śeṭṭi).

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