When you are so broke, you literally have nothing left under your name.
Example

1. I've been living on pap and atchaar because I'm financially deceased.

2. I can't pay you this week, I am financially deceased.

DRex • 16 July 2020
Is to buy WEED, this term started in Mamelodi now is a common word around Pitori.
Example

Bro, Vraiza ujike ko Jeff uTokantse baart

Thulani Mabuza • 22 April 2022

How South Africans say β€œtraffic lights” because β€œtraffic lights” is too long and doesn’t sound futuristic enough.
Example

No one:

Passenger in a taxi: After robot, driver.

Yanga CPT • 02 July 2025
The term Cape Flats refers to a flat, sandy stretch of land which is located on the outskirts of the city of Cape Town. It has been accurately described as the "dumping ground of apartheid" and it is here that people of colour (non-whites in "old South Africa" language) were relocated to in terms of the infamous Group Areas Act.
Example

I am from the Cape Flats where we hear gunshots every night.

LinguistZA • 03 November 2022

A term your Skrr skrr kids use to refer to covid-19 (Coronavirus).
Example

Skrr skrr 1: Don't come too close to me without a mask, fam.
Skrr skrr 2: Why, you think I have The Rona?

Mr Trends • 11 July 2020
It's a Xhosa slang word for a watch
Example

Where is ihlongo lam

snezzo • 29 June 2024

Mother of prayer
Example

Woman who pray for people

Mathapelo • 15 May 2024
Rekere is a Fool
Example

O nketsa rekere(You are making me a fool)

Dee 69 • 01 August 2021

Isidubada is an informal Xhosa dialect where you add a β€œd” after every sound. For example β€œMolweni” would be β€œmodolwedenidi”.
Example

Zikhona Sodlaka spoke isidubada in an episode of Gqeberha the Empire.

MXhosa • 15 March 2023
Being selfish or being flashy
Example

We cant go out with him because ano dada

Scarboy_zw • 28 September 2021


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