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Arms

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Offending codes of behaviour, breaking unwritten rules. This code term among teenage gangs was defined by one of its users as 'out of order'. The term was recorded in use among North London schoolboys in 1993 and 1994. It may in fact derive from the equally mysterious alms(-house), which is heard in black British speech denoting rudeness or dissing.

This is/he's arms.

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