nabe
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Definition of nabe
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(slang)Neighborhood.
“Cagers Will Attend ‘Nabe’ Gym Smoker. Practically every basketball player in the city has promised to attend the benefit smoker at the Neighborhood House gym, Tenth and Galapago, Monday night.”
““Biggest flopperoo of year, so far,” wrote Green “was the highly touted preeming of Biff Brown’s band at the Ritz, nabe dancery near Bridgeport.” … Glossary of Swing Words in this Chapter. … Nabe dancery: Neighborhood ballroom.”
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noun
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(slang)Neighborhood.
“Cagers Will Attend ‘Nabe’ Gym Smoker. Practically every basketball player in the city has promised to attend the benefit smoker at the Neighborhood House gym, Tenth and Galapago, Monday night.”
““Biggest flopperoo of year, so far,” wrote Green “was the highly touted preeming of Biff Brown’s band at the Ritz, nabe dancery near Bridgeport.” … Glossary of Swing Words in this Chapter. … Nabe dancery: Neighborhood ballroom.”
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(slang)Neighborhood theater, neighborhood cinema.
“They picked an aging star, slapped together a moldy script, and sent the result out to the nabes.”
- (slang, uncountable)A Japanese hot pot dish.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Clipping of neighborhood; compare hood. In attributive use, attested since 1922; in noun sense “neighborhood”, since 1942; in noun sense “neighborhood theater”, since 1933, originally in New York City.
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