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Damu

Damu noun: blood (a member of the Los Angeles gang the Bloods).

Noun

Damu (plural Damus)

  1. (slang) Blood (a member of the Los Angeles gang the Bloods)
    • […] Bloods. From E.H.B., you had Tutor, Fat Rabbit, and little L.O. From Skyline, it was Sergio Bailey, Butter […] a Damu school, particularly the Skyline Eastside Piru Gang. You had Ronald Rush, Ty, John John, Nut, J Bick[…]2009 02, Donovan Simmons, Terry Moses, Bloods and Crips: The Genesis of a Genocide, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 103
    • Letting them know we all Damus. Bloods stick together, fools. Now shake hands make up and except y'all have the same name. After a few months passed, Poobear from Bounty Hunters and Poobear from mad swans became tight. Not the tightest Bloods in the Nickerson[…]2020 November 6, Clifford Lee, When Blood Flows, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN

Forms of Damu

pluralDamus

Origin of Damu

Borrowed from Swahili damu (“blood”), borrowed from Arabic دَم (dam, “blood”), from Proto-Semitic *dam-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *dam-.

Questions about Damu

What does Damu mean?
Damu means blood (a member of the Los Angeles gang the Bloods).
What part of speech is Damu?
Damu is a noun.
What is the plural of Damu?
The plural of Damu is Damus.

Words near Damu in the dictionary

  1. damson plum
  2. damson plums
  3. damsons
  4. damtjernite
  5. damtjernites
  6. Damu
  7. Damulo-an
  8. Damulog
  9. Damus
  10. Damxung
  11. damyankee

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