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{
"etymology_text": "After Ezekiel Kemboi, a Kenyan runner. Despite Kemboi being a runner, the word is not used for run but to run away from a bad situation.",
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"ref": "2023 October 23, Irene Kinja, “My Boss Kids Used To Insult Me And Beat Me Up, Pritty Vishi's Mom Says”, in Waza News (in English)",
"text": "Pritty Vishi's mother shared a heartbreaking account of the severe mistreatment she endured from her employer in Saudi Arabia for over a year before she made the courageous decision to escape which they call \"Kukemboi\".",
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"ref": "2023 February 27, Audrey Travère, “Who are the ‘dalalas’? The middlemen preying on trapped domestic staff in Saudi Arabia”, in The Observers (in English)",
"text": "Kemboi can also be used as a verb, meaning to flee one’s employer.",
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"(Sheng) to run away, flee, escape (from an employer or a bad situation)"
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"etymology_text": "After Ezekiel Kemboi, a Kenyan runner. Despite Kemboi being a runner, the word is not used for run but to run away from a bad situation.",
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"ref": "2022 April 8, Grace Kerongo, “From Waiguru to Kemboi: Popular slang used by Kenyans in Gulf”, in Mpasho (in English)",
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"text": "In Kenya, women like them are known as “kembois,” domestic workers who have left their legal employers in the Gulf States and are now undocumented.",
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"ref": "2022 April 8, Grace Kerongo, “From Waiguru to Kemboi: Popular slang used by Kenyans in Gulf”, in Mpasho (in English)",
"text": "Kemboi - these are Kenyans who decide to run away from their place of employment and break the contract and seek out employment without the agency.",
"type": "quotation"
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"(Sheng) a domestic worker who left their employer and who is now undocumented"
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