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Meaning of mammy market | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A market attached to a barracks, selling goods to soldiers.

Nigeria

Examples

“South African partners successfully executed and turned the former Mammy Market at the Ikeja Military cantonment to an international ultra-modern market.”
“... you are not expected to look for petroleum products at Mammy market instead of NNPC or else, if you do that, you stand the risk of falling prey to fraudsters.”
“that dwarf: your mother with defeated nipples / she used to placate the lulls / with kolanuts at the 'mammy-market' / now it is tabasco for you”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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