"suka-suka" meaning in English

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        "3": "sesuka-suka",
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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": "2016, Mark Z. Danielewski, The Familiar, Volume 3: Honeysuckle & Pain, →ISBN, page 440:",
          "text": "like he can’t just suka-suka go off alone here.",
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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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        "As one pleases, whenever, on a whim; freely and without regard for future consequences."
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        "(Singlish) As one pleases, whenever, on a whim; freely and without regard for future consequences."
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          "word": "anyhow"
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        {
          "word": "suka suka"
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      "note": "closer to Malay",
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        "Singapore"
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  "word": "suka-suka"
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    {
      "word": "suka suka"
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  "word": "suka-suka"
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