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Thrift

🇿🇦 South Africa Slang
Added Apr 06, 2026 · 1 definition
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Tweedehandse klere (Second-hand clothes)

"Thrift shopping wins (Second-hand shopping wins)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Apr 06, 2026

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🇿🇦 South Africa
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April 2026

↻ Similar Words

Thrift 🇸🇿 Eswatini

Kuthenga emachinweni (Buying second-hand)

"Ngithrift-a tonkhe tingubo tami (I thrift all my clothes)"
Thrift 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

ትሪፍት/ያገለገለ ልብስ (Thrift)

"Thrift shopping tomorrow (Thrift shopping tomorrow)"

🇿🇦 About South Africa Slang

South African slang, from Cape Town to Johannesburg, mixes Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Sotho, and English into uniquely expressive township and street language.

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🌍 "Thrift" Across Africa

This word is also used in 10 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Thrift 🇸🇿 Eswatini

Kuthenga emachinweni (Buying second-hand)
Thrift 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

ትሪፍት/ያገለገለ ልብስ (Thrift)
Thrift 🇬🇦 Gabon

Friperie, vêtements d'occasion (Second-hand clothes)
Thrift 🇬🇭 Ghana

Second-hand shopping (Used clothes shopping)
Thrift 🇰🇪 Kenya

Kununua mitumba (To buy second-hand)
Thrift 🇱🇾 Libya

ثريفت (Thrift)
Thrift 🇳🇦 Namibia

Second-hand clothes shopping (Used clothes shopping)
Thrift 🇬🇲 Gambia

Thrift naa vintage (I thrifted vintage)
Thrift 🇳🇬 Nigeria

Second-hand shopping (Budget fashion)
Thrift 🇷🇼 Rwanda

Imyambaro ya kabiri (Second-hand clothes)

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