English citations of jialat

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  • 1996 October 26, Thomas Lim, “Singlish Dictionary”, in users.tpg.com.au[1], archived from the original on 9 February 2013:
    jia-lat man! Exam this time sure fail one.
  • 1997 October 19, Thye Hoon Lin, “Singapore Ties to Heroin Traffickers: News Release”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):
    wah lao...... jialat ahhhh you.
  • 1998 February 18, Calvin Chin, “Discus worries”, in sg.rec.aquaria (Usenet):
    Anyway, When the ones I bought were added to the 2, jia-lat man.
  • 1999 August 22, Feryl, “The only way to get rid of suzi from this newsgroup”, in sg.rec.tv (Usenet):
    jialat...die.
  • 2000 September 9, JooJoo, “What's wrong with the Singaporean girls??”, in sg.general (Usenet):
    Very soon hor, I predict I gena whack jialat jialat liao lah.......
  • 2001 February 1, “IPPT”, in BMT: The Unofficial Guide to Tekong and the Life of a Recruit[2] (blog):
    SOC, sibeh jialat; IPPT, lagi worse
  • 2014 June 23, Jonathan Lim, “17 Singlish words that offer so much more than their English equivalents”, in Mothership[3]:
    All very jialat. Like the weather, it’s quite jialat nowadays.
  • 2015 December 17, Kelly Tay Soon Weilun, “The Singapore economy, colloquially speaking”, in Business Times, →OCLC:
    None of the economists polled expect the economy to contract - be it a technical recession or a real recession - and hit the alamak and jialat ranges.
  • 2019 March 2, Lyn Chan, “When an emergency hits, will you know what to do?”, in Today[4]:
    According to his doctors, every minute he had remained unconscious would have added to his life being in danger. "If it were 10 minutes... jialat (terrible)!" he said.