"tekan" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1992 February 22, soc.culture.asean (Usenet):",
          "text": "\"Wah lau! You tekan him, ah? But he bigger than you, man!\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2003 October 17, “Questions thick and fast in Parliament”, in TODAY, page 2:",
          "text": "We have also been through training and we all kena tekan (were bullied), but even if we were ill-treated, we didn’t know that we were being ill-treated",
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          "ref": "2009 July 8, “Victim offered sex: Attackers”, in TODAY, page 10:",
          "text": "When Hamdan joined their cell, Iryan told him the 1.6m-tall victim was someone they could tekan (bully).",
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        },
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          "ref": "2013 July 17, “Paige Chua wears the pants”, in TODAY, page 60:",
          "text": "It will expose us to different ways of thought … like waking up at 4am and being tekan.",
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        "To bully or treat harshly, to punish (especially in military contexts)."
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          "harshly",
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        "(Singapore, colloquial, slang) To bully or treat harshly, to punish (especially in military contexts)."
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          "text": "\"Wah lau! You tekan him, ah? But he bigger than you, man!\"",
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          "ref": "2003 October 17, “Questions thick and fast in Parliament”, in TODAY, page 2:",
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          "ref": "2009 July 8, “Victim offered sex: Attackers”, in TODAY, page 10:",
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