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Load Shredding 

Refer to "Load Shedding", in South Africa, we get power cuts because of lack of maintenance on the power stations.

When you're working from home, and you have Stage 6 Load Shedding, so you can't work because your laptop dies and your internet connection drops. So you grab your mountain bike and go "Load Shredding"
Work colleague: "Hey man, power's been off since 10am, and load shedding is scheduled till 4pm, what you up to?"
Me: "Yeah Bro same, I've already racked up my bike, gonna go hit the trails and do some 'Load Shredding'"
Work Colleague: "Yeah man, 'Load Shredding' sounds good, meet you there."
Load Shredding by Munchk1n February 22, 2023
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Loadshedding 

South Africa is so backwards that they can’t even keep the power on
Oh fuck! It’s loadshedding.
Loadshedding by Cyril’siPad June 25, 2021

Load shredding 

Load Shredding is when you have Load Shedding in your area and can't work. So you rack up your mountain bike to go "Load Shredding"
Hi dude, seeing that we can't work due to Load shedding, let's get our bikes and go Load Shredding!
Load shredding by Munchk1n March 3, 2022

Load Shredding 

When you're working from home, and you have Stage 6 "Load Shedding", so you can't work because your laptop dies and your internet connection drops. So you grab yout mountain bike and go "Load Shredding"
Work colleague: "Hey man, power's been off since 10am, and load shedding is scheduled till 4pm, what you up to"
Me: "Yeah Bro same, I've already racked up my bike, gonna go hit the trails and do some 'Load Shredding'"
Work Colleague: "Yeah ma, meet you there."
Load Shredding by anonymous February 22, 2023

Loadshedding 

Load shedding is the practice of intentionally reducing electricity supply to balance the demand and prevent damage or outages on the power grid.
Today we have to Load Shedding Again Se Poes! Let me check the schedule at loadshedding.com Bruh
Loadshedding by Loadshedder April 23, 2023

Loadshedding 

A term used to describe when power is scheduled to go out for a period of time.
We had Loadshedding today and it was awful.
Loadshedding by UrbanDiction@ir December 21, 2023
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