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Work

🇧🇫 Burkina Faso Slang
Added Aug 12, 2025 · 1 definition
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Work (Work - English/French)

"Je go work! (I'm going to work!)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 12, 2025

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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
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August 2025

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Work 🇳🇬 Nigeria

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Work 🇺🇬 Uganda

Work (Work)

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🇧🇫 About Burkina Faso Slang

Burkina Faso slang captures the everyday language, street expressions, and cultural vocabulary of its people.

KASINARY has 1733 Burkina Faso slang words collected from native speakers.

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🌍 "Work" Across Africa

This word is also used in 6 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Work 🇳🇬 Nigeria

Job or slay
Work 🇺🇬 Uganda

Work (Work)
Work 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

Work (Work)
Work 🌍 Gen Z/Gen Alpha

Job or slay
Work 🇱🇷 Liberia

Labor/Employment (Work)
Work

Job or slay

🇧🇫 More Burkina Faso Slang

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