tekan

[ˌtəˈkan]

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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verb

Colloquial; Slang

""Wah lau! You tekan him, ah? But he bigger than you, man!""
"We have also been through training and we all kena tekan (were bullied), but even if we were ill-treated, we didn’t know that we were being ill-treated"
"When Hamdan joined their cell, Iryan told him the 1.6m-tall victim was someone they could tekan (bully)."
"It will expose us to different ways of thought … like waking up at 4am and being tekan."

From Malay tekan (“to press or pressure”).

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How do you pronounce tekan?

The recorded pronunciation is [ˌtəˈkan].

What does tekan mean?

Where does tekan come from?

From Malay tekan (“to press or pressure”).

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