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skebenga

skebenga is the alternative form 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

Forms of skebenga

pluralskebengas

Questions about skebenga

What is skebenga the alternative form of?
Skebenga is the alternative form of skabenga.

Words near skebenga in the dictionary

  1. skeary
  2. Skeat
  3. Skeats
  4. Skeavington
  5. Skeavingtons
  6. skebenga
  7. skebengas
  8. skebidi
  9. sked
  10. skedaddle
  11. skedaddled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skebenga (page history and authors); skabenga (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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