26 words found
n. The Aviator crash-betting game, or the high-risk gambling habit of chasing its multipliers.
“Little airplane” (from ndege = plane) - the onscreen jet in the Aviator betting game. Usually a one-way flight from $2 airtime to unpaid rent and ghosted creditors.
A street-savvy, ghetto chick; resourceful, bold, and ready to claw anyone who underestimates her.
katsi = cat 🐱, bonga = stray, alley-dwelling version. Put them together and you get the quintessential hood chick: street-smart, scratches if provoked, and always lands on her feet. Switches from polished English to raw Shona in two seconds flat, depending on who’s buying madrinks. EcoCash zero balance, but never without data bundles for TikTok live.
Hunger
Gangster / Hustler
Get high
Being high, stoned or under the influence
It won't happen / No / Unacceptable / It's not possible
Have sex
Crazy
Being kept in a hush-hush, one-sided situationship where the other person refuses to make the relationship official.
Taking initiative
Masturbation
Crossing one's country borders or leaving for another country.
HIV/AIDS
It won't happen / No / Unacceptable
To ejaculate
Informal “How are things on your side?”
Quick sense: “How’s it over there?” or “How are things your side?” A casual, peer-to-peer way to kick off convo, think Shona version of “Sup?” or “How you holding up?” When to drop it: voice note to your boy paJoza, random call to cousin stuck “kumapfanya”, text to bae who blue-ticked you since Monday.