sjambok
/ˈʃambɒk
/noun
(In South Africa) a long, stiff whip, originally made of rhinoceros hide.The police used tear gas and sjamboks to break up the crowd....
- He was beaten by 16 youths carrying hammers, axes, sticks and sjamboks, and suffered severe head injuries.
- The officers, armed with batons and sjamboks, struggled to control the horde.
verb (sjamboks, sjambokking, sjambokked) [with object]
Flog with a sjambok: she was sjambokked because she was thought to have been involved in witchcraft...
- He volunteered to combat looting in the chaos of the strike, and sjambokked nine people for looting.
- The two men managed to run away and the strikers began sjambokking and hitting Grobbelaar with sticks.
- Sithole was sjambokked and punched so severely that he could not go to work for two months.
Origin
From South African Dutch tjambok, via Malay from Urdu chābuk.
- non-legal
- non-lethal
- non licet
- non-life
- non-linear
- non-linearity
- non-linearly
- non-linear optics
- non liquet
- nonliquid
- non-literal
- non-literary
- non-literate
- nonliving
- non-load-bearing
- non-local
- non-locality
- non-logical
- non-logically
- non-low
- non-magnetic
- non-magnetizable
- non-malignant
- non-mammalian
- non-mandatory