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(Adjective) Hawaiian pidgin for mixed up, broken, junk, every which way. Said of something old and used.

For example:

‘We watched for a moment as his slippahs slap, slap, slapped the lava rocks, his old man’s hammajang trunks hanging off his hips and hitched up again and again in time with his feet.’ ~ description of Uncle Kahana

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