(religion) An effigy of Judas Iscariot that is attacked as part of the Good Friday celebration in Trinidad.
(religion) An effigy of Judas Iscariot that is attacked as part of the Good Friday celebration in Trinidad.
Elias, dem police beat mih like if ah was a Good Friday bobolee.
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Bobol is Caribbean slang — particularly from Trinidad and Tobago — for organized corruption or fraud, usually involving public funds or insider schemes. It goes beyond petty dishonesty: bobol is systematic, coordinated, and often shielded by the people in charge. When government contracts mysteriously go to the minister's cousin, or public money vanishes into thin air, that's bobol at work. The word carries both disgust and a resigned familiarity, the kind of corruption so entrenched it has its own colloquial name.
(Caribbean) organized fraud; corruption.
(dialectal, dated) A scarecrow.
(Scotland, archaic) A scarecrow.
(slang) One who is easily deceived or taken advantage of.
Good Fridays were unremarkable except for the hot-cross buns that Aunty Sue used to bake, and the drive to Point Fortin to look for Good Friday bobolees.
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