Baps is a South African slang term for sex.
Example

Okes will baps your hun without even thinking twice.

Yanga CPT • 17 May 2024
South Africa's financial capital, born from gold mining and now a multicultural metropolis.
Example

Johannesburg's Apartheid Museum documents the struggle against racial segregation.

Travel Admin • 23 June 2025

Nyoso means Nonsense
Example

Her: Nasty C is better than A Reece

Him: yinyoso yelo (that's nonsense)

uCrist • 15 June 2021
This is the job of the person taking the front sit in the taxi, i.e counting money and providing change.
Example

He was moered by taxi maths

DRex • 10 July 2020

Mfethu is a Nguni term, short for mfowethu, meaning my brother. It is generally used to refer to a man, doesn’t have to be related to you.
Example

Dankie for featuring me, mfethu.

Pronunciation
by MXhosa
MXhosa • 24 July 2025
Another word for sex. It is called tlof tlof because of the sounds during sex.
Example

He started crying during tlof tlof.

Skhokho • 30 April 2021

Is a colloquial Xhosa term for pubic hair.
Also see izinza.
Example

iinzeft zam ziyarhawzela.

MXhosa • 12 May 2021
A large working-class suburb in south-west Durban, created in the 1960s under apartheid as an Indian group area, the largest such township until the establishment of Phoenix in north Durban.
Example

Let's go see my bro in Chatsworth

Raj • 03 September 2026

Umgxobhozo yindawo echifichifi ngenxa yodaka namanzi, emva kokuba kunethe imvula ngamandla.

In English umgxobhozo is a swamp.
Example

Ngenxa yokuqhuba amatakane, uyise kaThando uthe dyumpu emgxobhozweni.

Khingh • 21 September 2025
To show anger or disbelief.
Example

Yeses maan, I am angry. How can this boy do this to me mara.

DRex • 06 August 2020


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