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• n  (Jamaica) a Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music
• n  follower of Rastafarianism

• Punks, goths, rockabillies, rastas, breakdancers, skaters and metallers all now pace Mexican streets, adorn its plazas and spray paint its walls.
• We part the crowds of ravers, rastas, scammers, weirdos and the rest of the Khao San fauna before we're spat out into the dozen or so lanes of sheer automotive apoplexy that is .
• And from goths to rastas to ravers to slackers, the focus of countercultural tribes is on evolving alternative identities.

• Rastafari
• Rastas
• Rastafarian
• Rasta

Quotes

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• Gary Dourdan in Malaysia Star
  I started hanging out with the rastas in Tompkins Square Park and growing dreads,Dourdan says. "People didn't know what to do with me then. I committed to music and started playing with a hard-rock band ...... I kept auditioning (for...
• Buju Banton in Jamaica Observer
  I have been one of the persons who have been championing the cause of decriminalising the herbBuju told Splash, "Rastas use herbs as a religious sacrament so we shouldn't be persecuted."