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Tag: gun

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Pop

[vb] [eng] shoot

E.g. 1. Told da kid to pop verbz at da chik. [Told him to shoot the babe down with lines]

E.g. 2. Too much poppin these days. [Too much shooting one another these days]

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Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Gat

[n] [eng] gun

E.g. 1. Poppin gats aint da way 2 solve probz. [Gunning yourself is not the way out of problems]

E.g. 2. Pigz used rubber gats to cloud 9 rowdy supotaz. [Cops used rubber guns to stop violent supporters.

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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Skida

[n] [sh] Gun

E.g. 1. Mudhara wake akakanda vanhu fear abudisa skida. (His dad frightened people when he brought out his gun.)

E.g. 2. Handidi kuona mafirimu anezvema skida mukati. (I don’t like watching violent films with guns.)

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