Usually means: Rebellious youth embracing ska culture.
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General (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rude boy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Rude Boy (Bob Marley song), Rude Boy (Rihanna song), Rude Boy (film), Rude Boy (song), Rude Boy, Rude boy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. rude boy: Wiktionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rude boy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rude boy: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Rude Boy, rude-boy: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of rudeboy [A male juvenile delinquent, originally in Jamaica in the 1960s.]

Similar:
rudeboy, rudie, bad boy, bully boy, niggerboy, rough, B-boy, banjee boy, funny boy, baby boy, more...

Opposite:
polite gentleman, courteous man

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Similar:
rudeboy, rudie, bad boy, bully boy, niggerboy, rough, B-boy, banjee boy, funny boy, baby boy, more...

Opposite:
polite gentleman, courteous man



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