Green’s Dictionary of Slang

zef adj.

[abbr./pron. of the Ford Zephyr, a cheap car that was easy to tune up]

(S.Afr.) on bad=good model, something that is so bad it becomes good.

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[SA]IOL News (S.Afr.) 22 Feb. 🌐 Things that are zef; i.e. those things so wrong, so ugly, so mis-matched and so far out of touch that they are out of town.
[SA]IOL News (S.Afr.) 9 June 🌐 The lyrics are catchy, the beats dope, their rap-rave style f*kken zef.