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gabba (2)

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gabba2 /ˈKHabə, ˈxæbə /
▸ noun South African informal a friend:
I've just come to tell my gabbas I'm still around.
– ORIGIN 1970s : Afrikaans, from Dutch slang gabber‘mate, lad’, via Yiddish from Hebrew ḥāḇēr ‘friend’.