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ma-gent

ma-gent is the alternative form of amagent.

Meaning of amagent

Noun

amagent (plural amagents)

  1. (South Africa) A young male criminal gang member.
    • In the amagents' telling, police regularly accept bribes to overlook the crimes or drop the charges against the amagents.1998, Crime and Conflict (issues 13-22, page 26)

Forms of ma-gent

pluralma-gents

Questions about ma-gent

What is ma-gent the alternative form of?
Ma-gent is the alternative form of amagent.

Words near ma-gent in the dictionary

  1. ma'ks
  2. ma'ruf
  3. ma-and-pa
  4. Ma-ayon
  5. Ma-ch'eng
  6. ma-gent
  7. ma-gents
  8. ma-in-law
  9. Ma-tsu
  10. MA15+
  11. MA63

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ma-gent (page history and authors); amagent (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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