bốc bát họ

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Meaning · English

To take out a street loan — an informal «họ» rotating-credit payout turned loan-shark product: you collect a lump sum and repay in steep daily installments; a staple of Northern black-credit stories.

Literally: to lift the group-fund bowl

Register: informalEra: ~2010s – present

Where it’s used: More common Miền Bắc · Northern Vietnam

Examples

Thiếu tiền chơi game, nó đi bốc bát họ rồi ôm nợ cả năm.Short on gaming money, he took a street loan and carried the debt all year.

Editorial example (batch 057)

Sources & notes

Found via hieuchua.com/define/B%E1%BB%91c%20B%C3%A1t%20H%E1%BB%8D (retrieved 2026-08-10; meaning reference only, definition original). Widely documented in Vietnamese press coverage of tín dụng đen. Corpus already holds the noun stub «bát họ» (vdict import).

Common questions

What does “bốc bát họ” mean?

To take out a street loan — an informal «họ» rotating-credit payout turned loan-shark product: you collect a lump sum and repay in steep daily installments; a staple of Northern black-credit stories. Literally: to lift the group-fund bowl

Is “bốc bát họ” formal or informal?

bốc bát họ is generally informal.

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