noun
- a heavy leather whip, especially one made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide, used in South Africa
Usage: South African
verb
- to beat with a sjambok
Usage: South African
Examples
- The security guard carried a sjambok as a deterrent.
- Police were accused of using sjamboks during the protest.
- The traditional sjambok was made from thick animal hide.
- He threatened to sjambok anyone who disobeyed.
- The farmer kept a sjambok hanging in the barn.
- Protesters were sjamboked by riot police.
- The sjambok left painful welts on his back.