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skabengas

skabengas is the plural of skabenga.

Meaning of skabenga

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

Questions about skabengas

What is skabengas the plural of?
Skabengas is the plural of skabenga.

Words near skabengas in the dictionary

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

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