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Meaning of boko | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
/ˈbəʊ.kəʊ/

Definitions

  1. The nose.
    Australia, West-Midlands, dated
  2. A people of Benin and Nigeria.
  3. A member of the Boko people.
  4. Boko Haram.
  5. A town in Niangoloko Department, Comoé Province, in southwestern Burkina Faso.
  6. A district in the Pool region of southeastern Republic of the Congo.
  7. The Latin script alphabet used for the Hausa language.
  8. A Mande language spoken by the Boko people.

Equivalents

Français boko boo

Examples

“[…] the way he hid the Pernod card and bumped me on the boko when I tried to have a dekko at it proves that.”
“He sang Landor's lines in a quavering falsetto, then broke raucously into the schoolboy battle-cry of "Hit him on the boko, hit him on the boko, Jericho!"”
“He let out a yell, his eyes watering from the punch on the boko.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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