sjamboke

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A form of sjambok — A stout whip, especially made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide.

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Meanings

verbsjamboke (third-person singular simple present sjambokes, present participle sjamboking, simple past and past participle sjamboked)

present singular third person sjambokes · participle present sjamboking · participle past sjamboked · past sjamboked

  1. alternativeAlternative form of sjambok.

    The Boers sjamboked unmercifully or shot natives whom they suspected of giving information to the British.

    1903, Edward Frederick Knight, South Africa After the War: A Narrative of Recent Travel, page 270
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    The corporal sjamboked her for certainly more than four minutes and sjamboked the baby as well. Are you ready to swear that you saw a white man sjamboking a baby, as well as its mother? I am.

    2010, Casper Erichsen, David Olusoga, The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism
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APA

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MLA

“sjamboke.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sjamboke. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sjamboke,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sjamboke.

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