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Ah Bengs

Ah Bengs is the plural of Ah Beng.

Meaning of Ah Beng

Noun

Ah Beng (plural Ah Bengs)

  1. (Malaysia, Singapore, derogatory) A young Chinese man in Singapore, associated with a stereotype of having little education or sophistication and operating within secret societies and street gangs.
    • Among the ah bengs and ah lians, the mats and the minahs, the young expats and the backpackers, he stood out like a dozen guys on a male-only dance floor singing Dancing Queen (I'll never forgive Blur for ruining my 21st birthday).2012 April 15, Neil Humphreys, “From Cool Dude to Sad Old Man”, in The New Paper, page 34

Questions about Ah Bengs

What is Ah Bengs the plural of?
Ah Bengs is the plural of Ah Beng.

Words near Ah Bengs in the dictionary

  1. agé
  2. Agăș
  3. ah
  4. ah ah ah
  5. ah beng
  6. Ah Bengs
  7. Ah Chee
  8. Ah Chees
  9. Ah Chek
  10. ah gua
  11. ah guas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ah Bengs (page history and authors); Ah Beng (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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