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Tiger

🇧🇼 Botswana Slang
Added Aug 12, 2025 · 1 definition
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Tiger (R10 note)

"Mpha tiger (Give me R10)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 12, 2025

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🇧🇼 Botswana
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August 2025

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Tiger 🇿🇦 South Africa

A ten rand note.

Tiger 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Lemaloti le le leng / R10 (Ten rand / R10 note)

"Mphe tiger ke rekele lipompong! (Give me R10 to buy sweets!)"

🇧🇼 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.

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🌍 "Tiger" Across Africa

This word is also used in 2 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Tiger 🇿🇦 South Africa

A nickname for the R10 note (in older township slang). The old brown R10 note was sometimes called a tiger, and half of that (R5) "half tiger." Though…
Tiger 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Lemaloti le le leng / R10 (Ten rand / R10 note)

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