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Mbao

🇰🇪 Kenya Slang
Added Aug 02, 2025 · 2 definitions
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Mbao definition 1

Classic slang for 20 shillings (literally 'a plank of wood,' perhaps from a time a board cost 20/-). Still used widely.

"Fare ya matatu ni mbao. (The bus fare is twenty bob.)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 02, 2025
DEFINITION 2

Mbao definition 2

Twenty shillings

"Nisaidie mbao ya sigara (Lend me twenty shillings for cigarettes)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 02, 2025

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🇰🇪 Kenya
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2 community definitions
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August 2025

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