spaza
/ˈspɑːzə
/noun
(In South Africa) a small unofficial store in a township, often based in a private house.Most Freedom Park residents rely on spazas for their groceries, ‘but those who want to buy bulk usually go to near-by Devland,’ Masuku explains....
- These products are sold on street corners, in garages and in spazas to an unwitting but gullible horde of patients.
- Secondly, small units are attached to many of the homes, to be used as workshops, spazas or anything else.
Origin
Township slang, literally 'camouflaged', of unknown origin.
- there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
- there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip
- there's more than one way to skin a cat
- there's more to someone (or something) than meets the eye
- there's no accounting for tastes (or taste)
- there's no fool like an old fool
- there's no law against it
- there's none so blind as those who will not see
- there's no (or little or not much) love lost between
- there's no such thing as a free lunch
- there's one (or a sucker) born every minute
- there's (or that's) —— for you
- there's safety in numbers
- the rest is history
- the Resurrection
- therethrough
- thereto
- theretofore
- thereunder
- thereunto
- thereupon
- the Revelation of St John the Divine
- the Revolution
- there wasn't a dry eye (in the house)
- there will be hell to pay