jol n.
1. a good time, merry-making, enjoyment, entertainment.
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | ‘Nocturne’ in Malan (1994) 18: Classical stuff. Just a helluva noise. Give me a wakker jol anytime. | |
| informant in DSAE. | |
 | ‘Blossom’ in Darling 12 Apr. 95: This oke sticks he’s foot out [...] so I trip over it and end up on my guava, then he checks me over and says all casual, ‘Fancy a jol sometime, poppie?’ [DSAE]. | |
| Vula Oct. 15: They’re unable to slot in with the ‘black’ culture [...] So the endless jorl and dop and skyf help provide middle ground [DSAE]. | |
| Weekly Mail (S.Afr.) 1 Nov. 17: In the first of a series on Jo’burg Jolls, Reg Rumnev ... takes a stroll around the city’s pubs [DSAE]. | |
| My Traitor’s Heart (1991) 69: The jol – say ‘jawl’ – was a very important South African concept, denoting kamikaze debaucheries [...] any tattooed hangster from the coloured slums could define its essential ingredients [...] ‘drink, dope, dice and fucking’. |
2. a party, a festival or other social occasion.
| Crime in S. Afr. 105: ‘Jol’, meaning a festive party. | |
| Rand Daily Mail 10 July 7: Ek se, where y’all vying after the jol? ... I say, where are you all going after the party? [DSAE]. | |
| ‘Boo to the Moon’ in Mooi Street (1994) 104: Don’t you okes realise this is our last jol together? | |
| Cape Town Coolie 11: There were so many parties and jorls. | |
| IOL News (Western Cape) 7 June 🌐 Join Willem and Bryon on their quest for the big end-of-year jol. |
3. a joke, a stunt, a game.
| Sat. Night at the Palace (1985) 72: Come on, man. Bit of a jol. | |
| ‘Boo to the Moon’ in Mooi Street (1994) 130: You think this is a game, don’t you? You think this is one big jol. | |
| ‘Score Me the Ages’ Born in the RSA (1997) 157: Ah shit, what a jorl it was hey. |
4. a holiday, a trip taken for pure enjoyment.
| Sat. Night at the Palace (1985) 52: Take a jol over to Pretoria. |
5. (also jolstuk) an act of sexual intercourse; a person characterized by their sexuality.
| ‘Shadow of Paradise’ in Waiting for Leila (2001) 131: My Boeta, he was no fool, worked out that Pa had a jolstuk on the skelm. Jolstuk? Well you know, a mistress, sort of. | |
| Sat. Night at the Palace (1985) 71: I had her tonight, man [...] We took a quick jol outside, man. Under the stoep [...] She was a lekker jol, man. | |
| Acid Alex 58: We’ll score you some dop and go for a jol on the beach. |
6. (S.Afr. prison) a prison sex-worker’s client .
| Acid Alex 210: She wants to know if I can organize a cell. She’s got a jol. [...] The jol arrives. Know him. Older ou doing a baadjie for armed Robbery. A-Group. Obviously can afford her. |
7. a fuss.
| Acid Alex 52: It [smoking dagga] had done nothing to us. We argued as to why on earth mense and the boere had made such a big fucking jol about it. |
8. see jolly n.1 (6)