Gbese

🇳🇬 Nigeria
Added July 17, 2025
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Debt or big trouble (literally “load”).
by KASINARY Admin July 17, 2025
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A Yoruba term meaning debt, now used in Pidgin too for owing money or being in a financial fix. Carry gbese means to accumulate debt. It can also imply causing trouble (figuratively 'problem').
"December enjoyment don leave plenty gbese for January. (Meaning: Holiday partying has left me in a lot of debt come January.)"
by Khulekani Dladla August 02, 2025
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Literally 'debt.' Slang-wise, to carry gbese means to get in trouble or owe a lot (including embarrassment). Also a famous dance move
"No go dance legwork for office o, you wan carry gbese? (Don't go dancing legwork in the office, you want to incur trouble?)"
by Khulekani Dladla August 03, 2025
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Gbɛ̀sɛ́ (Proverbe/Proverb)
"Gbɛsɛ ɖo nufin mɛ (Les proverbes contiennent la sagesse/Proverbs contain wisdom)"
by Khulekani Dladla August 05, 2025
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Debt/Owing money (Debt)
"I dey owe gbese everywhere (I owe debts everywhere)"
by Khulekani Dladla August 10, 2025
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