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zol en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans zol.

Meanings

1. (South-Africa, countable, slang, uncountable) A cannabis cigarette.
   • "All right, where's the zol?" Raju asked. "Why?" "You want to go in, we've got to give him dagga." 2007, Shunna Pillay, Shadow people, page 43:
   • An important man as he was the only source of the brown paper used for rolling zols. 1983, Athol Fugard, Notebooks, 1960-1977, page 176:
   • Look, you can't smoke four hundred zols a day... 2001, K. Sello Duiker, The quiet violence of dreams, page 9:
   • Yoh! I'm so gatvol of this tjoekie and need a zol to handle these moggy people. 2025 March 26, Khanyisile Ngcobo, “'Yoh! You're in the OED' – South Africa makes its linguistic mark”, in BBC:
   • Along with pop culture came drug culture, and suddenly everyone was smoking zol. 2011, Erich Rautenbach, The Unexploded Boer:

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