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skabenga

skabenga noun: a gangster or thug.

Noun

skabenga (plural skabengas)

  1. (South Africa, derogatory, slang) A gangster or thug.
    • "I mean that it went bankrupt, and the bank took the building away," replied the guard. "I am left here to keep skebengas and the homeless out, but there is nobody inside."2012, Kieran O'Neill, “Bicycleman Sakhile and the Cell Tower”, in John Michael Greer, editor, After Oil: SF Visions of a Post-Petroleum World, Founders House Publishing, →ISBN, page 66

Forms of skabenga

pluralskabengas
alternative formskebenga

Origin of skabenga

Borrowed from Zulu isígebéngu (“bandit, criminal, gangster”).

Questions about skabenga

What does skabenga mean?
Skabenga means a gangster or thug.
What part of speech is skabenga?
Skabenga is a noun.
What is the plural of skabenga?
The plural of skabenga is skabengas.

Words near skabenga in the dictionary

  1. skaapies
  2. skaapsteker
  3. skaapstekers
  4. Skaar
  5. Skaars
  6. skabenga
  7. skabengas
  8. skacid
  9. skacore
  10. skadaddle
  11. skaddon

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