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basskaap

basskaap is the alternative form of baasskap.

Meaning of baasskap

Noun

baasskap (uncountable)

  1. (South Africa) Dominion, control, or supremacy, especially of white South Africans over nonwhite peoples.
    • African teachers were not permitted to criticize the government or any school authority. It was intellectual baasskap, a way of institutionalising inferiority.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 195

Questions about basskaap

What is basskaap the alternative form of?
Basskaap is the alternative form of baasskap.

Words near basskaap in the dictionary

  1. bassing
  2. Bassingthorpe
  3. Bassins
  4. bassist
  5. bassists
  6. basskaap
  7. basskap
  8. Bassler
  9. Basslers
  10. bassless
  11. basslessness

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