impimpi
English
Noun
impimpi (plural impimpis or impimpi)
- (South Africa) A police informer.
- 2005, Ksenija Bilbija, The Art of Truth-telling about Authoritarian Rule, p. 20:
- Within some communities, vigilante justice was used to identify, punish, and kill political sell-outs, known as impimpis.
- 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury 2013, p. 20:
- They're almost certainly impimpis, bastards who betrayed and murdered comrades.
- 2005, Ksenija Bilbija, The Art of Truth-telling about Authoritarian Rule, p. 20: