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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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A Patois word for confusion, drama, gossip, a rough situation or an ongoing back-and-forth quarrel — essentially "mess" or "commotion". The reduplication (passa-passa, like fenke-fenke or chaka-chaka) intensifies the meaning, a regular Patois pattern. The word is also the name of one of the most famous street-dance party series of 2000s Kingston: Passa Passa, held weekly on Spanish Town Road in Tivoli Gardens from around 2003 onward, became a defining dancehall event and was widely filmed and circulated on early YouTube, exporting Jamaican dance moves and fashion to a global audience. In casual speech "don't bring no passa-passa here" means roughly "don't bring trouble or drama into this".
whole heap a passa-passa break out after him post that comment
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