phuza, verb intransitive

Origin:
As phuza noun.
To drink liquor.
1977 P.C. Venter Soweto 124Say, ‘Auntie, what about a popla?’ That means you would like a beer. Or, ‘A dop of moonshine, sister!’..Or even, ‘I just want to pusa’. Meaning you want to fly high on something and you are not particular.
1978 Randlords & Rotgut (Junction Ave Theatre Co.) in S. Gray Theatre Two (1981) 92Give yourself a silly grin, come and drink Imperial Gin...Don’t be a loser, come and phuza!
1982 Voice 23 May 4Neither am I an extremist as to suggest that we don’t phuza at all — ach that would be the day...We go about boozing ‘to hell and gone’.
To drink liquor.
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