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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
yardie is a noun meaning "member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence". It carries one recorded sense.
member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence
“A much publicized raid on a yardie stronghold had first been simulated at Riot City”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for yardie come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.