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词组 Babylon
释义 Babylon
noun
  1. the white establishment; a symbol of all that is corrupt and evil JAMAICA, 1943
    From the mystical “Babylon of the Apocalypse”.
    • — F. G. Cassidy and R.B. LePage, Dictionary of Jamaican English, p. 17, 1967
    • The capitalistic, imperialistic, doggish pimping of the People must cease by this wanton, sadistic country or perish like Babylon. — The Black Panther, 6 April 1969
    • Babylon cyaan [cannot] keep a good man down. — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 23, 1994
    • — Judi Sanders, Da Bomb!, p. 2, 1997
    • “Babylon! Get the fucker!” I was casually dressed and generally of unkempt appearance, but they could smell a copper a mile away. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 165, 2002
  2. by extension from sense 1, the United States US
    • — David Claerbaut, Black Jargon in White America, p. 57, 1972
  3. the police JAMAICA
    • — Richard Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, p. 55, 1996
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