tekan session

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tekan

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session

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  1. (military) an extended period of punishment, heavy duty, or bullying inflicted upon a soldier or group of soldiers by a superior

    2. Being “tekanned”, or bullied, was part and parcel of NS. Even the smallest thing could earn a recruit a tekan session.

    — 2017, Mano Sabnani. Marbles, Mayhem and My Typewriter: The unfadable life of an ordinary man. Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited. ISBN: 9789814794534

    Melvin Tan, on whose shoulders the task fell, recalls that those few hours were as pleasant as bootcamp during compulsory national service: “The pressure was tremendous, like a tekan session in the army.”

    — 2006, Cherian George (quoting Melvin Tan). Contentious Journalism and the Internet: Towards Democratic Discourse in Malaysia and Singapore. Singapore University Press. ISBN: 9789971693251. p.137


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