Carnival Baby (n): A child born about nine months after Carnival usually in November. (From being conceived during Carnival fever.)

The acceptance of normally disapproved social practices such as the public consumption of alcohol and forms of sexual interaction also relate to this phenomenon, as gang warfare, no less than male/female relationships and the Carnival-baby syndrome, contribute to a societal detumescence even if for certain portions of the society more than others.



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

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