bullet

Naija

Etymology

From: English bullet

Pronunciation

• búlɛ̀t

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 2
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2032
• Frequency in raw corpus: 80
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2398

Noun

1. Di ting wey dey comot for gun when dey shoot am.

   Police say dem no use real bullet to drive people.  — (bbc__82603, The police said they did not use live bullets to disperse people.)

   De go shoot di ting, di ting no go enter, di bullet go fall for ground.  — (IBA_04_Alaska-Pepe_MG__93, They shot the thing, it would not go in; the bullet would fall to the ground.)

2. Someting wey students dey carry enter exam hall make de fit take do wayo.

   E carry bullet enter inside exam hall.  — (He/she entered the exam hall with a leaked examination paper.)

   Person wey dey carry bullet enter exam no be wetin better pikin.  —  (NSC_Onwuegbuzia-2021, A person who engages in exam malpractice is not a good child.)

Synonyms

• chukuli, expo

Translations

• English: bullet, exam malpractice