bullet
Naija
Alternative forms
- gunshot 0.77 50, bush 0.75 264, incense 0.74 8, gun 0.74 393, coffin 0.73 38, knife 0.72 69, attackers 0.72 110, fire 0.71 1249, truck 0.70 104
Etymology
Borrowed from English bullet
Pronunciation
- búlɛ̀t
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 2
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2032
- Frequency in raw corpus: 80
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2398
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Noun
bullet: Slang: ( of examination malpratice) a leaked examination answer -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- E carry bullet enter inside exam hall. — (He/she entered the exam hall with a leaked examination paper.)
- - (frequency:30)
- Shell buy bullet' for military' - Ogoni leader — (bbc__9283, __no translation__)
- Mami weh bullet also hit her dey for hospital. — (bbc__65136, __no translation__)
- amod (frequency:14)
- Di next thing na to fire live bullet. — (bbc__88828, __no translation__)
- Police say dem no use real bullet to drive people. — (bbc__82603, __no translation__)
- det (frequency:9)
- Na there I notice say the bullet touch me for the side of my head. — (bbc__6290, __no translation__)
- 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.)
- case (frequency:4)
- For January, dem arrest one native doctor afta one man drink odeshi for bullet, but dem still shoot am die. — (bbc__50261, __no translation__)
- People wey dey ground say na hundreds of bullet na im di man fire, and dem hear di sound of automatic gunfire. — (bbc__80965, __no translation__)
- amod-det (frequency:3)
- Di kata-kata make traders wey di sell for di area to run enta dia shop to prevent any stray bullet. — (bbc__35430, __no translation__)
- When e no dey use am, make e comot the whole bullet, go lock am keep for where person no go see am. — (jw__48429, __no translation__)
- cc (frequency:2)
- Also, no sale of gun and bullet and people wey get gun suppose carry dia two legs, go report to authorities. — (bbc__38867, __no translation__)
- Tori ontop local media na say parents rush go school to carry dia children and bullet still touch some of di children. — (bbc__95479, __no translation__)
Derived forms
Synonymes
- gunshot 0.77 50, bush 0.75 264, incense 0.74 8, gun 0.74 393, coffin 0.73 38, knife 0.72 69, attackers 0.72 110, fire 0.71 1249, truck 0.70 104
Antonymes
- gunshot 0.77 50, bush 0.75 264, incense 0.74 8, gun 0.74 393, coffin 0.73 38, knife 0.72 69, attackers 0.72 110, fire 0.71 1249, truck 0.70 104
Translations
- English: Slang: ( of examination malpratice) a leaked examination answer