See suka-suka on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2016 January 29, Zaqy Mohamad, “Debate on President's Address”, in Parliamentary Debates: Official Report (Parliament of Singapore), volume 94:",
"text": "Once you stand for elections, you must then be ready to serve if you are called upon as an NCMP. You cannot just have a myopic view of being \"a duckweed in a pond that cannot sink roots\" and not give the NCMP position any dignity and \"suka-suka\" swap candidates.",
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"ref": "2023, Agnes Chew, Eternal Summer of My Homeland, Epigram Books, →ISBN, page 29:",
"text": "“It’s government-owned land, you know. […] If everyone is like him, suka suka go and claim land for themselves, can you imagine what will happen?”",
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"word": "suka suka"
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