gabba (2)EnglishOxford Dictionary of Englishgabba2 /ˈɡabə , ˈxabə / ▸ noun South African English 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’.