sjamboke

English

Verb

sjamboke (third-person singular simple present sjambokes, present participle sjamboking, simple past and past participle sjamboked)

1. Alternative form of sjambok
   • 1903, Edward Frederick Knight, South Africa After the War: A Narrative of Recent Travel, page 270:

     The Boers sjamboked unmercifully or shot natives whom they suspected of giving information to the British.

   • 2010, Casper Erichsen, David Olusoga, The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism:

     The corporal sjamboked her for certainly more than four minutes and sjamboked the baby as well.
     Are you ready to swear that you saw a white man sjamboking a baby, as well as its mother?
     I am.