Koevoet
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See also: koevoet
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Afrikaans Koevoet.
Proper noun[edit]
Koevoet (uncountable)
- (historical) A specialized South African police unit during the apartheid era that operated primarily in what is now Namibia.
Afrikaans[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From koevoet (“crowbar”), as a metaphor for how insurgents would be pried out of the civilian population.
Proper noun[edit]
Koevoet
- (historical) A specialized South African police unit during the apartheid era that operated primarily in what is now Namibia.