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dem

pronoundeterminerattested in dialogue

  • //dɛm//

(clitic, suffix) A group of.

pronoun

  1. 1

    Variant of themNonstandard form of them.

    Go tell dem natty dreadlocks no wear handcuff,” advises Damian Marley, his guest star and younger brother, who accuses the officers of jealousy.

determiner

  1. 1

    slang(clitic, suffix) A group of.

    Love tenderness is what the woman dem want

    Chillin' wiv da man dem Jammin' wiv da man dem It's all good in the hood wiv da man dem

    I’ve got my peeps dem with me shouting pull up your socks, Cos we just broke the law and now we're running from cops.

  2. 2

    Variant of themNonstandard form of them, in the sense of "those".

    What are dem fings doing ’ere?

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).