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duppy

Speech parts

1. duppy - Noun

2. duppy - Verb

Meaning

(Caribbean, Jamaica) A ghost or spirit, often appearing in the form of a dog barking or howling through the night.

Synonyms: jumbie; see also Thesaurus:ghost

(Jamaica, games) A drawn game of noughts and crosses (in Jamaica tii-taa-tuo).

(MLE, MTE, transitive) To kill; to murder.

Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kill

(MLE, by extension, transitive) To excel in.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

In Pusha T’s “The Story of Adidon,” a diss track response to Drake’s “Duppy Freestyle” (which itself was a response to another Pusha T jab), there’s not a lot of innuendo. Source: Internet

I thought to myself, all right, this is it, the duppy inside her is about to jump into me and I'll have to spend the rest of my life being called the duppy man. Source: Internet

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