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"word": "Yahoo boy"
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"ref": "2010, Sefi Atta, News from Home: Stories, page 245",
"text": "They sent emails asking mugus to wire funds in order to claim nonexistent prizes.",
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"ref": "2020, Mirka Honkanen, World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian Diaspora in the USA, page 240",
"text": "It is people like you who make my hustlers in Europe call Americans mugu.",
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"A fool."
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"(West Africa, derogatory) A fool."
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"A victim of an online scam."
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"word": "mugu"
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