Meaning
A semi-automatic or automatic firearm — clipped from 'automatic'. 'Matic' is dancehall and street slang for a rapid-firing gun, boasted about in gun-talk lyrics and feared on the ground, set against the older single-shot pieces. Along with words like 'strap' and 'tool', it belongs to the coded vocabulary that gun culture has spun off into Jamaican speech.
Examples
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Dem seh him have a matic.
They say he has an automatic gun.
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Di matic let off nuff shot.
The automatic fired off many shots.
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Matic buss inna di dance.
An automatic went off in the dance.
Origin
Clipped from 'automatic'; a semi-automatic/automatic firearm. See [[strap]], [[gunman]].
How it’s used
Dancehall/street slang for an automatic firearm. See [[strap]], [[gunman]].