impimpiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

impimpi (複数形 impimpis または impimpi)

1. (South Africa) A police informer.
   • 2005, Ksenija Bilbija, The Art of Truth-telling about Authoritarian Rule, p. 20:

     Within some communities, vigilante justice was used to identify, punish, and kill political sell-outs, known as impimpis.

   • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury 2013, p. 20:

     They're almost certainly impimpis, bastards who betrayed and murdered comrades.