Definitions

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  • noun South Africa, slang shit
  • noun A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Cambodian riel.

Etymologies

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From the Afrikaans language term meaning the same.

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Examples

  • It then admitted there was a "mistranslation" and the Kurdish word "kak" means brother and is a common term of respect.

    Yassin Aref's Struggle for Justice in Police State America 2008

  • It then admitted there was a "mistranslation" and the Kurdish word "kak" means brother and is a common term of respect.

    Yassin Aref's Struggle for Justice in Police State America 2008

  • Mr. Shemdin said that Mr. Aref is referred to with the common honorific, "kak," which could mean brother or mister, depending on the level of formality.

    Hullabaloo 2004

  • Mr. Shemdin said that Mr. Aref is referred to with the common honorific, "kak," which could mean brother or mister, depending on the level of formality.

    Hullabaloo 2004

  • Mr. Shemdin said that Mr. Aref is referred to with the common honorific, "kak," which could mean brother or mister, depending on the level of formality.

    Hullabaloo 2004

  • (FF) had shouted "kak" when Ben Turok (ANC), on another point of order, asked whether FF MPs should not be expelled from the House.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • His saddle was a Texas "kak," built many years ago,

    Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads Various

  • In the two villages of Upper and Lower Innai there has been an outbreak of a malady much dreaded by the Japanese, called kak’ke, which, in the last seven months, has carried off 100 persons out of a population of about 1500, and the local doctors have been aided by two sent from the Medical School at Kubota.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • If you want to look for '' kak '' and perform about colour then I ain't going down that road ...... cause as long as a doctor saves my life or my familys or any ones life for that matter I give jack kak what colour he or she is

    Zimbabwe Telegraph and ZimDaily Forums 2008

  • If you want to look for '' kak '' and perform about colour then I ain't going down that road ...... cause as long as a doctor saves my life or my familys or any ones life for that matter I give jack kak what colour he or she is

    Zimbabwe Telegraph and ZimDaily Forums 2008

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