"shotta" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2001, Donna P Hope, Inna di dancehall: popular culture and the politics of identity in Jamaica",
          "text": "For example, a shotta from one street in the community had \"cut up\" another youth from their own avenue.",
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          "text": "They go on an ID parade [a police lineup], and nobody identified them as being a shotta, so everything's clear. But we still baffi be careful.",
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          "text": "Shottas may act as independent gunmen or may be under the rule of particular dons.",
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