witblitz
n.— «The injuries were allegedly sustained during a “corridor session” in which pupils are forced to crawl on hands and knees past other hostel dwellers, who then hit the pupil. The practice is referred to as “witblitz” or “bak-oond.”» —“Boy ‘beaten into submission’” by Hannah Keal in Pietermaritzburg News24 (Cape Town, S. Africa) Sept. 20, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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