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Chief

🇳🇬 Nigeria Slang
Added Apr 06, 2026 · 1 definition
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Traditional title holder (Traditional title holder)

"Chief don arrive (The chief has arrived)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Apr 06, 2026

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🇳🇬 Nigeria
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1 community definition
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April 2026

↻ Similar Words

Chief 🇨🇲 Cameroon

Chief (Chief/traditional leader)

"Chief get power for village (Chief has power in the village)"
Chief 🇹🇿 Tanzania

Mkuu/kiongozi (Leader/chief)

"Chief wa mtaa ameitisha mkutano (Neighborhood chief called meeting)"

🇳🇬 About Nigeria Slang

Nigeria has one of Africa's richest street-language traditions, blending Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and Pidgin English into a constantly evolving slang vocabulary used by over 220 million people.

KASINARY has 1854 Nigeria slang words collected from native speakers.

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🌍 "Chief" Across Africa

This word is also used in 4 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Chief 🇨🇲 Cameroon

Chief (Traditional leader)
Chief 🇹🇿 Tanzania

Mkuu/kiongozi (Leader/chief)
Chief 🇸🇿 Eswatini

Sikhulu (Chief)
Chief 🇱🇷 Liberia

Traditional leader/Elder (Chief)

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