Damu is a Swahili word meaning 'blood', and in American slang — particularly in gang culture on the West Coast — it's used as a term of reference or address among members of the Bloods street gang and their affiliates.
Damu is a Swahili word meaning 'blood', and in American slang — particularly in gang culture on the West Coast — it's used as a term of reference or address among members of the Bloods street gang and their affiliates. Outside of that specific context, it's sometimes used more broadly as a term of kinship or brotherhood, similar to calling someone family. The word has also been adopted in certain hip-hop and urban communities as a general term.
He greeted his old friend as damu, the two of them having grown up in the same neighborhood.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(slang) Blood.
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