bollo work
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Jamaican Creole[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly a clipping and compound of combolo (“friend/comrade”) + work (“work”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bollo work
- Temporary emergency jobs created by the government to reduce unemployment.
- Di party seh a nuh bollo work, but everybody dun know seh true election deh near mek dem dweet.
- The party pointed out that these weren't temporary emergency jobs, but we all knew that they created them because elections are approaching.
- 2018 November 16, Martin Henry, “Martin Henry”, in Jamaica Gleaner[1]:
- It’s not a vote-buying, ‘bollo work’ public works programme, we are led to believe.