Agbero
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Agbero is a noun meaning (Nigeria) A labourer (manual worker).
Meaning
(Nigeria) A labourer (manual worker).
More Meanings
- (Nigeria) A thug, typically a jobless male youth who threatens tourists.
Example Sentences
In fact, most of the hubs of Lagos’s night life from the last century have disappeared. Mr. Adé’s own Ariya nightclub closed in 2003, when agbero boys (local hoodlums) started extorting the visitors and vandalizing their cars.
Word Forms
- agberos
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gangman, acada, belabourer, grafter, laboress, bomboy.
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