Glass of water being poured.

Lime Lingo: Tobago Ice-Water

  • Tobago ice-water (n):  A humorous reference to sucking a dinner mint and drinking pipe water afterwards to give a cold water effect when ice is not available.  From denigration of living conditions from the view of a less sophisticated Tobago.
    • Yuh have to take Tobago ice-water, to wash down that doubles boi.

Map of Tobago

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Source: Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago by Lise Winer

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