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Yaakaar

🇬🇲 Gambia Slang
Added Aug 10, 2025 · 1 definition
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Yaakaar definition 1

Yaakaar bi (The hope/expectation)

"Sama yaakaar mooy dem Europe (My hope is to go to Europe)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 10, 2025

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🇬🇲 Gambia
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August 2025

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