jol

[ johl ]

noun

1. a party or enjoyable social time:

   We went to a great jol last night.

   Come on over and have a jol!

verb (used without object)

1. to party or carouse, especially boisterously:

   I sleep terribly because the students next door jol and blast music all night.

jol

/ dʒɒl /

noun

1. a party

verb

1. intr to have a good time

Word History and Origins

Origin of jol¹

First recorded in 1965–70; from Afrikaans: “dance, party”

Example Sentences

“If you can look down at a depth of a meter” in the images the radar collected, “that could be a year’s worth of excavation work,” said Jol, a Canadian citizen who is volunteering on the project in Cyprus together with his son and assistant Connor.

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For Jol, it’s the second time he has travelled to Cyprus to test out the radar.

From Seattle Times

Jol, who participated in searches for Holocaust victims in Latvia, said the technology could be a game-changer for burial sites in other former conflict zones.

From Seattle Times

The whole point of his work, Jol said, is to offer closure to the families of the missing by “working myself out of a job.”

From Seattle Times

Harry M. Jol, a geography and anthropology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, which owns the pulseEkko, says that subsequent computer analysis of the images could reveal soil “anomalies,” possibly caused by digging for a burial site.

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