twimbo means a Zimbabwean Twitter user who maintains regular activity, not just someone who does it occasionally like once in a blue moon.
Note: The plural for twimbos is either written or pronounced as matwimbo or twimbos.
Example usage
vale
means Eaglesvale High School which is located at 147 Gleneagles Road, Willowvale, Harare. The school is co-educational and has boarding facilities for both girls and boys.
Uniform — girls wear green blazers and green skirts while boys wear green blazers and grey trousers with brown shoes...
fash
means Ellis Robins High School a boys-only secondary school for both day scholars and boarders which is located at Sherwood Drive, Mabelreign, Harare, and is close to Sentosa. They wear blue blazers and black trousers with black shoes for their uniform.
Example usage:
valembe
1: a prominent public figure, socialite, or generally someone who is doing well for themselves and happens to be balling out of control as they should, why not?
2: a fancy top-of-the-line product or service — this can be anything from an audiophile high-end stereo system, a hypercar, a...
chidadiso means money and this doesn't matter whether the type of currency at hand is either fiat e.g., U.S. dollar notes, Euros, Rands, Pounds, etc., or a digital cryptocurrency e.g., Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Tether (USDT), etc.
Note: A formal way to say "money" in chiShona language is...
A ferebritiy, in Zim slang, refers to a person who is primarily popular on social media (e.g. Facebook or Instagram) so much that if they go live they will garner a reasonable Zim social media audience.
However, if such a person was to walk down any random street in Zimbabwe they are likely to...
Supa sabhu, in Zim slang, basically means a backup girlfriend just in case the main chick calls it quits unexpectedly or if she is currently unavailable because it's that time of the month again.
Therefore, a supa sabhu is meant to be a temporary stand-in and unofficially deputize the main...
januwari disease
refers to personal financial health lamentation that is experienced by people who squander their salary (or additional bonus payment) because of too much excitement about the holiday season at the end of the year (i.e. Christmas and New Year's celebrations).
What then happens...
chivheti
means the Occidental culture (chiRumbi) or generally anything that does not relate to customary ways of Chivanhu (African traditional culture).
Note: Keep in mind that the word Vheti means the English language; it doesn't matter whether it's en-US, en-GB, or whatever. But the word...
chinaira
means marijuana (Cannabis Sativa or Indica).
Note: In the Republic of Zimbabwe, the law of the land currently doesn't permit the recreational use of cannabis therefore it is also illegal to cultivate it for such reasons. However, new legislation is slowly addressing the legalization...
wanga
means a broke person.
Wanga is also sometimes used in shaming broke men who are over-confident to step out of their league hoping they will be accepted by a gorgeous-looking slay queen. But unfortunately, the ending is always the same though, that is, with a rejection of course...
choku
is the street name for cocaine (or coke) in the Republic of Zimbabwe while mapopukoni, refers to crack cocaine.
hupfu in the context of slang means exactly as you'd probably expect and that's white heroin (an opioid).
But since there are different types of heroin, here are Zim slang...
kuchopa
means to speak broken English or to mispronounce words, names, and phrases by inadvertently butchering them because you know, you are perhaps only familiar with your native language after all.
Nevertheless, it goes without saying that albeit English is spoken all over the world not...
means "je ne sais quoi", charisma, X-factor, or a special intangible attribute that makes a person extremely likable without either trying so hard or breaking a sweat.
On the contrary, some people may be extremely talented and very good at what they do, but because of their personalities, this...
kubatwa
means to be under the influence of some drug; however, this word is sometimes used by some Zimbos in reference to being inebriated (with either wine, spirits, or beer) instead of being high from drugs although that's not what it really means.
Note: Generally if a person is self-aware...
dotcom
or alternatively in the Shonglish form "dhotikomu," both terms refer to the latest trending gossip. In addition, other closely related synonyms include mafaira or makuhwa in chiShona language.
Example usage:
miin fi seh sopm iin ditiel bout wetin yuh dey talmbout.
Fi hegzampl, "expagorate" e dey yuus fi aks smadi fi clarify fi dem poin, espeshali wehn dem staat fi taak for tekniikal jargon langwij, ah wehn dem seh illogical conflicting stietmentdem i.e., aalsuh nuon for chiShona langwij az...
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