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maquis
🇨🇮 French slang from West Africa
What does “maquis” mean?
open-air bar-restaurant
Example
“On se retrouve au maquis après le boulot.”
Let's meet at the maquis after work.
Good to know
An Ivorian institution: grilled fish and chicken, music, drinks. In standard French 'maquis' = scrubland or the WWII Resistance.
Who you can say it to
Fine with anyone
🌮 Food🎉 Going out
The textbook way to say it: un bar-restaurant
Heard in a conversation
The friend with easy money
Ismaël Adjoua, tu connais Junior ? Il a une nouvelle voiture et il farote au maquis chaque soir.
Adjoua, do you know Junior? He's got a new car and he shows off at the maquis every night.
Adjoua Junior ? Il n'a pas de travail ! Tout le quartier dit que c'est un brouteur.
Junior? He hasn't got a job! The whole neighbourhood says he's an internet scammer.
More from West Africa
- une drogbaa big bottle of beer
- le tchapalomillet beer
- le banguipalm wine
- s'enjaillerto have fun, party
- ça a gâtéit went off, it was amazing
- faroterto show off (with money)
- zouglouzouglou: Abidjan’s student-born dance music
- coupé-décalécoupé-décalé: flashy Ivorian party music
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