press

Naija

Etymology

From: English press

Pronunciation

• prɛ́s

Play Play

Verb

1. Make person use iron wey dey hot take straight cloth.

   • Joke, abeg help me press my shirt now.  — (Egbokhare_2021, Joke, please kindly iron my shirt for me now.)

2. Make person take hand squeeze someting.

   • You dey drive anyhow, you dey press am, dey march am, na accident e dey result in.  — (IBA_13_Road-Safety_M__222, You are driving recklessly, applying the accelerator; that may result in an accident.)
   • Press di egusi so dat oil go comot!  — (KAD_10_Egusi-Soup_MG__22, Squeeze the egusi to extract oil from it.)

3. Make person dey busy ontop computer sake of sey e want use wayo collect people money.

   • The bros don dey press since primary school na when wey e reach university na e come pay.  — (NSC_Abonyi_2021, The now mature guy has persisted in the shady business of cyber theft since primary school; it paid off for him when he was at the university.)
   • De go just dey where de dey, just press deir all di pressable, di computer, di phones, di everything, and dey just decide.  — (WAZK_08_Fuel-Price-Increase_MG__98, They spend all their time busy at the computer, their devices and all in an attempt to find someone to swindle.)

4. Make dem dey do yahoo.

   • E don dey hard to tell area people sey if you press, e go over you last last  — (NSC_2021, It is becoming very difficult to tell the people around that if you get involved in internet fraud, it will end very badly for them.)

5. Make person put power for someting

   • You dey find mama? she dey where de dey press oil comot from banga for dere.  — (NSC_2021, Are you searching for the old lady? She is at the mill.)
   • Some kind better moto, you no need too press di brake. E dey sharp, e dey hold; but you see all dose jalopy, you go don first chop better six to six before you go fit press di brake.  — (NSC_2021, For some good cars, you need to hit the brakes too hard. It's usually good and it works well; But some of these old cars, you'll need to eat fufu before you can hit the brakes well.)

Related forms

• press brake, press hand

Translations

• English: to iron, squeeze, tap, defraud, hit squeeze