Tall Tales: Slangs: Christina

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“Criss” = crisp/fresh/fine. “She criss” = she’s clean, sexy, well put-together. “Criss and clean” is the full phrase. Dancehall guys use it when a woman’s outfit/hair/body is on point sexually.

“Browning” = light-skinned/mixed woman. Jamaica has colorism, and “browning” is fetishized as more desirable. “Mi love a browning” = “I love light-skinned girls”. Used in tons of songs. Problematic, but it’s a real sexual preference term.

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