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Braai

🇧🇼 Botswana Slang
Added Aug 12, 2025 · 1 definition
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Braai (BBQ)

"Weekend braai (Weekend braai)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 12, 2025

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🇧🇼 Botswana
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August 2025

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Braai Share definition South African word for barbeque Throw some chops on the Braai by Riyo December 01, 2003 Flag Get the Braai mug.

"Throw some chops on the Braai"
Braai 🇿🇦 South Africa

Barbecue / social cookout.

"We’re having a braai on Saturday."

🇧🇼 About Botswana Slang

Botswana slang merges Setswana with English, with Gaborone youth driving a modern lexicon influenced by South African township culture.

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🌍 "Braai" Across Africa

This word is also used in 6 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Braai

Barbecue or grill gathering
Braai 🇿🇦 South Africa

Barbecue / social cookout.
Braai 🇳🇦 Namibia

A barbecue grill or the act of grilling meat socially. In Namibian youth culture, to braai is an essential weekend activity
Braai 🇸🇿 Eswatini

Ukosa inyama / Ukwenza inyama (Barbecue / Making meat)
Braai 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Ho besa nama / Moqoqo (To grill meat / Barbecue)
braai 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

Braai (Barbecue)

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