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Definition of "tsotsi" [tsotsi]

  • A hoodlum or street thug, especially one from the townships; a township skollie. (noun)

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Use "tsotsi" in a sentence
  • ""What those men did was wrong, but I think they were trying to tell her something," he says, his shoulder-length dreadlocks capped by a hat marked "tsotsi" (township slang for gangster)."
  • "(Samwu) staged a low-key protest march to Nkosi's offices in Germiston chanting slogans calling Nkosi a "tsotsi" and saying McBride should be fired."
  • "'The threat of the' tsotsi 'is permanent,' the priest said, referring to the young armed black gangsters who bedevil South"