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bagarap

bagarap
 adj.— «Roads and hospitals, he said, are “bagarap”—the pidgin word for broken down; literally “buggered up.”» —“Papua New Guinea—killing fields of the Pacific” by Nick Squires New Zealand Herald Aug. 27, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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