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Lit

🇧🇼 Botswana Slang
Added Aug 12, 2025 · 1 definition
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Lit (Exciting/Fun)

"Party e ne e le lit (The party was lit)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 12, 2025

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🇧🇼 Botswana
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August 2025

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Lit 🇿🇦 South Africa

Very exciting or excellent.

Lit 🇸🇨 Seychelles

Ambians cho (Hot atmosphere)

"Party ti lit yer! (Party was lit yesterday!)"

🇧🇼 About Botswana Slang

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

KASINARY has 1824 Botswana slang words collected from native speakers.

Browse all Botswana slang (1824 words)

🌍 "Lit" Across Africa

This word is also used in 25 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Lit 🇿🇦 South Africa

Awesome, exciting
Lit 🇸🇨 Seychelles

Ambians cho (Hot atmosphere)
Lit 🌍 Gen Z/Gen Alpha

Awesome, exciting
Lit 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

Exciting (Lit/exciting)
Lit 🇸🇸 South Sudan

Hafla nar (Fire party)
Lit 🇧🇮 Burundi

Lit (Exciting)
Lit 🇹🇿 Tanzania

Kizuri/kali (Good/hot)
Lit 🇪🇬 Egypt

ليت - Lit/Awesome
Lit 🇸🇿 Eswatini

Kumnandi kakhulu / Into enhle kakhulu (Very fun / Something very cool)
Lit 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

ሊት/በጣም ደስ የሚል (Lit/amazing)
Lit 🇬🇦 Gabon

Incroyable, génial (Amazing, awesome)
Lit 🇬🇭 Ghana

Fire/Amazing/Exciting (Very exciting)
Lit 🇰🇪 Kenya

Moto / nzuri sana (Awesome / exciting)
Lit 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Monate o moholo / Ho chesa (Very nice / Hot)
Lit 🇱🇷 Liberia

Exciting/Amazing (Fire/Awesome)
Lit 🇱🇾 Libya

ليت (Lit / exciting)
Lit 🇲🇿 Mozambique

Incrível, animado (Amazing, lively)
Lit 🇳🇦 Namibia

Oshiwa unene / amazing (Amazing / exciting)
Lit 🇬🇲 Gambia

Place bi lit na (The place is lit)
Lit

Awesome, exciting
Lit 🇳🇬 Nigeria

Very exciting or fun (Very exciting or fun)
Lit 🇷🇼 Rwanda

Ikintu cyiza cyane (Something very good)
Lit 🇺🇬 Uganda

Lit (Exciting)
Lit 🇿🇲 Zambia

Exciting/great
lit 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

Yakaipa (It's great/amazing)

🇧🇼 More Botswana Slang

Gluten free Gluten free (No wheat) Zanku Zanku (Leg work dance) Catch feelings Go catch feelings (Fall in love) Malatsi Malatsi (Days) On and off On and off (Unstable relationship) Pula e nesa Pula e nesa (Rain nourishes)
View all 1824 Botswana slang words

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