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Caff: Cafeteria. Used mainly on University campuses.
Call: To be beckoned by unseen forces. Juju is usually implied e.g. dem dey call you?
Camp: Take up residence eg the babe don go camp for dat Aristo boy’s quarters.
Cantab: Run full circle and over take fellow athlete in long distance race.
Carbon copy: Dead ringer for someone else e.g See im face. Na real carbon copy of im papa.
Carbu-carbu: Unregistered taxi cab operating illegally. Not painted in official taxi colours.
Carry am for head: 1.Take up too much responsibility for something. 2. To become obsessed with something e.g See how e carry politics for head.
Carry basket: Heavy defeat in football game.
Carry dey do: Behave badly.
Carry F: fail exam. Also F9 parallel.
Carry first: Come first in any kind of race or examination
Carry go: Used playfully to mean -Get away or Get out of here.
Carry last: Come last.
Carry woman: verb 1. Womaniser e.g. you too carry woman.
Cash madam: Rich female entrepreneur especially market trader.
Catch: 1. Enough salt in food. e.g. salt no catch dis soup at all. 2. Intoxication e.g. Ogogoro don catch am. 3. Excited e.g. Bodi dey catch am.
Cease light: Power failure. See Nepa.
Cha cha: New car.
Chai!: Good grief
Chain: Necklace.
Characteristics of Tombo: Sang to the tune of Michael Jackson's You wanna be starting something. (See Tombo)
Chance: 1 Take advantage of. 2 Intimidate 3 Cheat e.g. abeg no chance me jo!
Changer: Hifi
Charge: Loose one's temper.
Chassis: Brand new car.
Check: Leave a place e.g di bobo don check commot.
Check am: Consider it carefully.eg Omo, check am well. Yu dey on transfer 3 months, she say yu gi am belle of 4 months. Also Look am well.
Chei!: Goodness! See Chai.
Chicken change: Small amount of money.
Chickito: Young pretty girl. Also Chikola.
Chin: 1. Frowning 2. Angry. Also - Chinning.
Chin-chin: Fried bits of pastry served as appetiser. See Small chop.
Chineke!: Igbo word.1. God Almighty.2.Exclamation;Oh my God! Also Chineke God!
Chipay: Cheap. See Chepeleke.
Chipeleke: 1. Cheap 2. Cheap article.
Chook: 1. Prick with sharp object. 2 Sexual intercourse
Chook head put: Intrude into someone’s business. Also Chook mouth put and Chook leg put.
Chop: 1. Food 2. Income 3. Bribe 4. Embezzle money e.g Dat Oga chop belle-full bifor e retire.
Chop bottle: Eat glass. Part of pre fight preamble during which various threats and questions are asked to measure of toughness of the opponent e.g. you dey chop bottle?
Chop bullet: Get shot.
Chop chin: To ignore someone completely.
Chop congo: Sexual intercourse.
Chop life: Enjoy life.
Chop money: Monthly or weekly house keeping allowance.
Chop mouth: Kissing.
Chop-remain: Leftovers of meal.
Christmas goat: Used for one was sweats excessively e.g. which one you dey sweat laik Christmas goat. i.e. the goat sweats for its life as Christmas draws near.
Chuk: 1. Prick 2. Stab e.g Why you chuk me naif?
Chuk body put: 1. Squeeze into tight corner. 2. Getting involved with other peoples buisness.
Chuku-chuku: Thorny.
Ciga: Cigarette
Claim champion: Claim to be the best or toughest.
Clear: 1. Leave e.g Make you clear commot. 2. Malicious sliding tackle during football game e.g See as them dey clear leg, abi na fight? 3. Finish large meal e.g Di guy clear the Eba finis o! 4. Pass examination.
Call: To be beckoned by unseen forces. Juju is usually implied e.g. dem dey call you?
Camp: Take up residence eg the babe don go camp for dat Aristo boy’s quarters.
Cantab: Run full circle and over take fellow athlete in long distance race.
Carbon copy: Dead ringer for someone else e.g See im face. Na real carbon copy of im papa.
Carbu-carbu: Unregistered taxi cab operating illegally. Not painted in official taxi colours.
Carry am for head: 1.Take up too much responsibility for something. 2. To become obsessed with something e.g See how e carry politics for head.
Carry basket: Heavy defeat in football game.
Carry dey do: Behave badly.
Carry F: fail exam. Also F9 parallel.
Carry first: Come first in any kind of race or examination
Carry go: Used playfully to mean -Get away or Get out of here.
Carry last: Come last.
Carry woman: verb 1. Womaniser e.g. you too carry woman.
Cash madam: Rich female entrepreneur especially market trader.
Catch: 1. Enough salt in food. e.g. salt no catch dis soup at all. 2. Intoxication e.g. Ogogoro don catch am. 3. Excited e.g. Bodi dey catch am.
Cease light: Power failure. See Nepa.
Cha cha: New car.
Chai!: Good grief
Chain: Necklace.
Characteristics of Tombo: Sang to the tune of Michael Jackson's You wanna be starting something. (See Tombo)
Chance: 1 Take advantage of. 2 Intimidate 3 Cheat e.g. abeg no chance me jo!
Changer: Hifi
Charge: Loose one's temper.
Chassis: Brand new car.
Check: Leave a place e.g di bobo don check commot.
Check am: Consider it carefully.eg Omo, check am well. Yu dey on transfer 3 months, she say yu gi am belle of 4 months. Also Look am well.
Chei!: Goodness! See Chai.
Chicken change: Small amount of money.
Chickito: Young pretty girl. Also Chikola.
Chin: 1. Frowning 2. Angry. Also - Chinning.
Chin-chin: Fried bits of pastry served as appetiser. See Small chop.
Chineke!: Igbo word.1. God Almighty.2.Exclamation;Oh my God! Also Chineke God!
Chipay: Cheap. See Chepeleke.
Chipeleke: 1. Cheap 2. Cheap article.
Chook: 1. Prick with sharp object. 2 Sexual intercourse
Chook head put: Intrude into someone’s business. Also Chook mouth put and Chook leg put.
Chop: 1. Food 2. Income 3. Bribe 4. Embezzle money e.g Dat Oga chop belle-full bifor e retire.
Chop bottle: Eat glass. Part of pre fight preamble during which various threats and questions are asked to measure of toughness of the opponent e.g. you dey chop bottle?
Chop bullet: Get shot.
Chop chin: To ignore someone completely.
Chop congo: Sexual intercourse.
Chop life: Enjoy life.
Chop money: Monthly or weekly house keeping allowance.
Chop mouth: Kissing.
Chop-remain: Leftovers of meal.
Christmas goat: Used for one was sweats excessively e.g. which one you dey sweat laik Christmas goat. i.e. the goat sweats for its life as Christmas draws near.
Chuk: 1. Prick 2. Stab e.g Why you chuk me naif?
Chuk body put: 1. Squeeze into tight corner. 2. Getting involved with other peoples buisness.
Chuku-chuku: Thorny.
Ciga: Cigarette
Claim champion: Claim to be the best or toughest.
Clear: 1. Leave e.g Make you clear commot. 2. Malicious sliding tackle during football game e.g See as them dey clear leg, abi na fight? 3. Finish large meal e.g Di guy clear the Eba finis o! 4. Pass examination.
Close eye: Grin and bear it e.g close eye drink dat medicine ojare.
Close marking: Following spouse to every social event for fear of husband or wife snatchers.
Co-wife : Fellow wife in polygamous setting.
Coal tar: Asphalt road
Cock-shoe: Court shoe. Any low cut ladies' shoe not bearing laces.
Coconut head: Insult reserved for the unintelligent. Also Block head.
Coke and Fanta: Derisory term used to describe the mottled complexion one who uses skin bleaching products.
Colo: Loose ones mind e.g. Dat guy don dey Colo.
Colo- mentality: 1. Colonial mentality; one subservient to the British as in the colonial times. 2. An Uncle Tom
Come chop: Small party. See Arrangee.
Comot: 1 Come out 2 Get away! E.g. comot for here jo! 3 Excuse me e.g. comot road make I pass. 4. Go out eg I dey comot by four thirty.
Comot for road: 1. Make way 2. Get away!
Compin: Company.
Compound: Fenced off house, bungalow or groups of huts.
Condemn: Spoilt beyond repair e.g. see how she juss condemn the moto.
Condition make crayfish bend: Saying used when one is forced to do the unthinkable due to prevailing financial circumstances.
Confido: 1 Confidence 2 Self confidence.
Confra: University Campus Fraternity. See Cult Guy.
Congo-meat: Cooked snail
Coolee: 1 Relaxed 2 Cool 3 Chill.
Coolu-down: Simmer down.
Coolu temper: 1. Control your temper! 2. Title of song by Nigerian
saxophonist Lagbaja.
Cora : Lebanese or Syrian. Derived from the fact that these groups used to trade in Corals. Also Cora man.
Corner-corner: Illegal.
Corofo: Army recruit.
Coror: 1. Dark corner 2. Crevice.
Corper: Member of the National Youth Corps programme.
Corporate begging: High class begging e.g. A rich man or business with cash flow problems begging for loans.
Correct: Very good. e.g Di bobo na correct guy.
Correct Correct: Extremely good.
Cortex: Nail varnish.
Cortina: Type of school sandals.
Count: Afford e.g You fit count Twenty thousand as you stand so?
Country paper: 1 Passport 2 Right of abode in foreign country.
Court!: Rallying cry for everyone in a public building to rise and leave. Usually done to embarrass speaker or performer on university campuses.
Cover beer: Aluminium beer bottle cover.
Cost: Expensive. Also Too cost.
Crape: Defraud completely e.g. e crape all my money or E don crape my head pata-pata. 2 Finish (food) completely. See Level.
Crash helmet: Prominent forehead. Also Opun.
Craw-craw: Skin ailment especially rashes.
Craze: Crazy.
Crunje: eaked examination paper.
Cross leg: Idleness. e.g see as e cross leg dey wait awoof.
Crown: King in draughts.
Cruise: Use excessively.
Cry blood: Threat. E.g. you go cry blood today today.
Cry-cry: Cry baby.
Cry dey call you: Threat to a child before a smacking. See Trouble dey call you.
Cross no gutter: Tight and long skirt i.e. it would be difficult to skip across gutter.
CU: 1. Christian Union 2. Born again Christian.
Cubes: Sugar cubes
Cult guy: One belonging to secret societies, nocturnal fraternities or clubs especially in higher institutions.
Cuni: Contraction of cunning. Also Cunny or Cuni-cuni. See Wayo
Cuni man die cuni man bury am: It takes one to know one.
Cushion chair: Arm chair with cushion.
Cut: Share of the loot. Usually involves a bribe.
Cut and sew: Bespoke tailor. See Mobile tailor.
Close marking: Following spouse to every social event for fear of husband or wife snatchers.
Co-wife : Fellow wife in polygamous setting.
Coal tar: Asphalt road
Cock-shoe: Court shoe. Any low cut ladies' shoe not bearing laces.
Coconut head: Insult reserved for the unintelligent. Also Block head.
Coke and Fanta: Derisory term used to describe the mottled complexion one who uses skin bleaching products.
Colo: Loose ones mind e.g. Dat guy don dey Colo.
Colo- mentality: 1. Colonial mentality; one subservient to the British as in the colonial times. 2. An Uncle Tom
Come chop: Small party. See Arrangee.
Comot: 1 Come out 2 Get away! E.g. comot for here jo! 3 Excuse me e.g. comot road make I pass. 4. Go out eg I dey comot by four thirty.
Comot for road: 1. Make way 2. Get away!
Compin: Company.
Compound: Fenced off house, bungalow or groups of huts.
Condemn: Spoilt beyond repair e.g. see how she juss condemn the moto.
Condition make crayfish bend: Saying used when one is forced to do the unthinkable due to prevailing financial circumstances.
Confido: 1 Confidence 2 Self confidence.
Confra: University Campus Fraternity. See Cult Guy.
Congo-meat: Cooked snail
Coolee: 1 Relaxed 2 Cool 3 Chill.
Coolu-down: Simmer down.
Coolu temper: 1. Control your temper! 2. Title of song by Nigerian
saxophonist Lagbaja.
Cora : Lebanese or Syrian. Derived from the fact that these groups used to trade in Corals. Also Cora man.
Corner-corner: Illegal.
Corofo: Army recruit.
Coror: 1. Dark corner 2. Crevice.
Corper: Member of the National Youth Corps programme.
Corporate begging: High class begging e.g. A rich man or business with cash flow problems begging for loans.
Correct: Very good. e.g Di bobo na correct guy.
Correct Correct: Extremely good.
Cortex: Nail varnish.
Cortina: Type of school sandals.
Count: Afford e.g You fit count Twenty thousand as you stand so?
Country paper: 1 Passport 2 Right of abode in foreign country.
Court!: Rallying cry for everyone in a public building to rise and leave. Usually done to embarrass speaker or performer on university campuses.
Cover beer: Aluminium beer bottle cover.
Cost: Expensive. Also Too cost.
Crape: Defraud completely e.g. e crape all my money or E don crape my head pata-pata. 2 Finish (food) completely. See Level.
Crash helmet: Prominent forehead. Also Opun.
Craw-craw: Skin ailment especially rashes.
Craze: Crazy.
Crunje: eaked examination paper.
Cross leg: Idleness. e.g see as e cross leg dey wait awoof.
Crown: King in draughts.
Cruise: Use excessively.
Cry blood: Threat. E.g. you go cry blood today today.
Cry-cry: Cry baby.
Cry dey call you: Threat to a child before a smacking. See Trouble dey call you.
Cross no gutter: Tight and long skirt i.e. it would be difficult to skip across gutter.
CU: 1. Christian Union 2. Born again Christian.
Cubes: Sugar cubes
Cult guy: One belonging to secret societies, nocturnal fraternities or clubs especially in higher institutions.
Cuni: Contraction of cunning. Also Cunny or Cuni-cuni. See Wayo
Cuni man die cuni man bury am: It takes one to know one.
Cushion chair: Arm chair with cushion.
Cut: Share of the loot. Usually involves a bribe.
Cut and sew: Bespoke tailor. See Mobile tailor.
