Chips-funga
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Chips-Funga, this term emanates from the East African country of Kenya and is popular with the residents of its capital city Nairobi
to mean a one night stand. The term is combination of two words "Chips" and "Funga". Chips is the locally popular world for French Fries
while funga is a swahili word to mean wrap or close. Within Nairobi and Kenya at large there is a common practice to buy "chips" (French Fries
) after a night out in the various clubs. When one orders chips at that time they normally say chips funga i.e. take away fries. This term is therefore also used to refer to the act of picking up girls from clubs to take home. The term is used in informal conversation and is common slang in the capital and environs but has however spread around the world but is currently only popular with Kenyans in the diaspora.
Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi County. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is...
to mean a one night stand. The term is combination of two words "Chips" and "Funga". Chips is the locally popular world for French Fries
French fries
French fries , chips, fries, or French-fried potatoes are strips of deep-fried potato. North Americans tend to refer to any pieces of deep-fried potatoes as fries or French fries, while in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, long, thinly cut slices of deep-fried potatoes are...
while funga is a swahili word to mean wrap or close. Within Nairobi and Kenya at large there is a common practice to buy "chips" (French Fries
French fries
French fries , chips, fries, or French-fried potatoes are strips of deep-fried potato. North Americans tend to refer to any pieces of deep-fried potatoes as fries or French fries, while in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, long, thinly cut slices of deep-fried potatoes are...
) after a night out in the various clubs. When one orders chips at that time they normally say chips funga i.e. take away fries. This term is therefore also used to refer to the act of picking up girls from clubs to take home. The term is used in informal conversation and is common slang in the capital and environs but has however spread around the world but is currently only popular with Kenyans in the diaspora.