yobo

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English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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yobo (plural yobos)

  1. Alternative form of yobbo (person engaging in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness)

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Etymology 2

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From Korean 여보 (yeobo, darling, sweetheart).

Noun

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yobo (plural yobos)

  1. (military, historical) A soldier's female Korean lover or hired prostitute.
    • 2019, Ron Cook, On Guard in the General's Chorus, page 2:
      Grandpa doesn't want Grandma and their kids and grandkids to know that he had to get penicillin shots all the time, or that he smoked boo (marijuana) on a daily basis, or that he dealt in the black market, or that he had yobos (purchased live-in sex slaves).
  2. (Hawaii) A Korean person.

Anagrams

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Hawaiian Creole

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Etymology

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From Korean 여보 (yeobo, darling, sweetheart).

Noun

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yobo

  1. a person of (usually local) Korean descent.

Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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yobo

  1. a kind of banana

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh