skop v.
1. to enjoy oneself, to ‘party’; thus skop lawaai, to have a rowdy, noisy good time.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Star 9 June 12: Skop man. Skop. Skop [DSAE]. | |
 | in Frontline 21: They are all here to ‘skop ’n bietjie’ with the family. They’ve come to enjoy themselves, and, wragtig, nothing’s going to stop them [DSAE]. |
2. (also skopskop) to kick something or someone.
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Love and the Hyphen in Gray Three Plays (1984) 50: frikkie: You want to fight? smith: I don’t mind. frikkie: Fair play or skopskop [DSAE]. | |
| in Darling 12 Apr. 95: They even got steel toecaps, in case the cow you milking takes a step forward, then you jis skop her right back, see [DSAE]. | |
| Sat. Night at the Palace (1985) 15: You scheme he’s got a right to skop me out? | |
| CyberBraai Lex. at www.matriots.com 🌐 In South Africa a guava is also a backside, a butt, a bum. If someone is behaving in an annoying manner, you can threaten to ‘skop (kick) him up his guava’. |
In phrases
1. violence, e.g. as used by the authorties against protesers; also used to describe violent movies aimed sopecifcally at popular entertainment auduences.
| IOL News (Western Cape) 30 Nov. 🌐 The time of skiet and donder, when you could haul people in and torture them is over. | |
| IOL News (Western Cape) 28 June. 🌐 The ‘skop, skiet en donder’ drama woke the town about 5 pm last Saturday when four murder and robbery suspects overpowered a policeman in their cell. | |
| IOL News (Western Cape) 20 Nov. 🌐 Don’t think that Black Hawk Down is another minless Rambo skop, skiet en donder flick. | |
| IOL News (Western Cape) 12 Nov. 🌐 I had long scoffed at this B-grade skop, skiet en donder malarkey. | |
| IOL News (Western Cape) 5 Mar. 🌐 ‘The mentality of “skop, skiet en donder” is not part of the new dispensation,’ he said. | |
| IOL News (Western Cape) 19 Feb. 🌐 ‘What are they doing?’ ‘Skiet, skop en donder films for teenagers’ said Raeburn. |
2. used verbally, to attack, to beat.
| Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg) 12 June 🌐 Every feminist I know thinks it’s brilliant cos it skops, skiets en donners the male chauvinists. |