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.



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

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