nylon, noun
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- EnglishShow more Figurative and transferred use of general English; see quotations 1960 and 1962.
Especially in township slang: kwela-kwela sense 1.
1960 C. Hooper Brief Authority 209Because of the appearance of their perspex panels they were soon known as ‘Nylons’; or they were referred to by the city name of ‘kwela-kwela’ — an imitation of the police herding prisoners aboard with shouts of ‘Kwela! get on!’
1980 E. Prov. Herald 16 Sept. 11Multilingual South Africanisms like ‘ag’ and ‘doek’, ‘muti’ and ‘kwedine’, or the township slang of ‘nylons’ (police vans) and ‘skellums’.
Especially in township slang: kwela-kwela sense 1.
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