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niki-niki

niki-niki noun: chewing tobacco.

Noun

niki-niki (uncountable)

  1. (Australia) Chewing tobacco.
    • Mark […] went up to the native camp, chuckling and distributing sticks of niki-niki, or trade tobacco, to a score of black snatching hands.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, page 21
    • There were no problems when she ran the nearby Barrow Creek pub and paid her Aboriginal girls $30 a week, with meals and a bit of niki niki (chewing tobacco).1985, The Age, Wednesday, May 29, 1985, p. 11

Questions about niki-niki

What does niki-niki mean?
Niki-niki means chewing tobacco.
What part of speech is niki-niki?
Niki-niki is a noun.

Words near niki-niki in the dictionary

  1. Nikes
  2. nikethamide
  3. Nikhil
  4. Niki
  5. Niki Lauda
  6. niki-niki
  7. Nikiforuk
  8. Nikis
  9. nikischerite
  10. Nikita
  11. nikka

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