Definitions
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- noun South Africa, slang A very bad
hangover .
Etymologies
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From Afrikaans, from Zulu i-bhabhalazi
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Examples
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Dr Ginwala said she had consulted a dictionary which informed her that "babalaas" was a "the dulling after effects of a drinking bout".
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Mzimela, referring to Dr Blade Nzimande as having a "babalaas".
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"babalaas", the Speaker, Dr Frene Ginwala ruled on Thursday.
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According to National Union of Metalworkers (NUM) spokesman Castro Ngobese, Eskom's human resources manager Bhabhalazi Bulunga, "must have been babalaas (hungover)" when he claimed yesterday that Eskom workers could not strike.
IOL: News 2010
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Like a babalaas flashback, it reminded me of myself when I was 21 and bok to belong.
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