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/ˈbæmə/ · noun
(African-American Vernacular, derogatory) An unstylish rural person; a hick..
A lot of dudes that I knew at that time use to think that guys from Maryland was bammas but I didn't sleep on nobody because even a bamma can pull a trigger. I always knew that even if a guy was from cotton ball land, he could still do damage.
Black didn't like them much. He said to me one day, “Stan, why do you hang around them bammas?” Bamma meant “country” or “slow” or something of that nature.
“Man, there's a bamma that just came home from jail trying to intimidate and extort my youngins.”
Use bamma when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bamma means (African-American Vernacular, derogatory) An unstylish rural person; a hick..
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A lot of dudes that I knew at that time use to think that guys from Maryland was bammas but I didn't sleep on nobody because even a bamma can pull a trigger. I always knew that even if a guy was from cotton ball land, he could still do damage.
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