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teongpeng
post Mar 4 2011, 06:14 PM

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The origin is from hokkien gangsters to signify someone have to naik kereta polis or police van.

Soon it caught on to be a slang for "finished", "the end of story", "fail", "no hope" etc.
teongpeng
post Mar 4 2011, 06:16 PM

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QUOTE(Joey Christensen @ Mar 4 2011, 06:12 PM)
Hokkien is superior than Cantonese. No doubt about it. Some say Hokkien is even more superior than Mandarin.
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in terms of language influence locally in malaysia and singapore? yes. Hokkien slangs pwns all.

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