Kobo

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Nigerian naira.

    "How much would those ones drop in his bowl? Tattered, dirty, sellotaped five-naira notes? Those coins that had just been reintroduced but were useless, because not even bàbá dúdú was sold for fifty kobo or one naira anymore? Was one naira actually money if you could not even buy sweets with it?"

  2. 2
    100 kobos equal 1 naira in Nigeria wordnet
  3. 3
    A coin with the value of one kobo; (by extension) a very small amount of money.

    "The new kobo is the same size as the old Nigerian shilling and carries a depiction of cocoa seeds."

Example

More examples

"Will you buy a Kindle, a Nook or a Kobo eReader?"

Etymology

Ultimately from English copper, probably via one or more West African languages (compare Igbo kọbọ̀ and Fula kobo).

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