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Light

🇳🇬 Nigeria Slang
Added Apr 06, 2026 · 1 definition
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Light definition 1

Electricity (Power)

"Light don come (Electricity has been restored)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Apr 06, 2026

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🇳🇬 Nigeria
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April 2026

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🇳🇬 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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This word is also used in 1 other country, sometimes with a different meaning.

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