Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A species of mullet, Joturus pilchardi, found in the mountain torrents of the larger islands of the West Indies. It is characterized by the simple stomach and the coarse truncate incisors.
Wiktionary
- n. A materialistic person who affects an anti-materialistic persona.
Etymologies
- Shortening of bourgeois bohemian. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“i believe he has: bobo, bobo¹, bobo², and bobo³. which each one means, i don't know. for his”
“So -- and -- and here I have a book with a-- a neologism bobo, which is bourgeois Bohemian.”
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
“Mr. BROOKS: Well, as I say, the bobo is a reconciling ethos between left-wing bourgeo -- or left-wing bohemian, right-wing bourgeois.”
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
“It didn't help that the children were a little befuddled by the break in routine, and wanted to know who I was, and why am I here, and where are their teachers, and can I look at this "bobo", and will I be staying for the rest of the day, and on and on.”
“Jeta means mouth/lips or "bobo" (dopey person), but I don't what the connection between jeta and sleep is.”
“Hell, he employed one "bobo" who drew a check just for waking him up every morning.”
“i bet the sale of "bobo" toys went up after this aired!”
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“Apparently the puking was the reaction of the body rejecting the "bobo" because to the body it is a "foreign body" and will reject it and eventually the immune system will be suppressed an is less effective and well this explains my cold:)”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bobo’.
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Bob
He's everywhere.
bob, Bob, bobolink, nabob, bobbing, apple bobbing, Bob Dylan, ragtag and bobtail, plumb bob, kabob, discombobulate, earbob and 106 more...
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Palabras que inician y terminan con l...
teniente, casaca, dorado, tataranieta, coco, colérico, tomatito, pólipo, ínterin, bobo, cólico, lóbulo
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Liberal Fascism
Words gathered while reading Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
de rigueur, palingenetic, christianist, himmleresque, invidious, bismarckian, divinize, granitelike, deweyan, fons et origo, kulak, numinousness and 107 more...
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Recent additions
Relatively new coinages, or adaptations of previously existing words.
firewall, bioterrorism, bling-bling, bluetooth, bobo, game face, microdermabrasion, metrosexual, microarray, sex worker, stained-glass cei..., stalkerazzi and 99 more...
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Isograms
Words with each letter repeated the same number of times. The pattern of repetition is tagged: 1212, 1221, 121122, 122121, 121233, 122133, 123123, 123132, 123213, 123231, 123312, 123321, 12123434, ...
deeded, sestettes, geggee, appeases, caucasus, isis, cancan, intestines, mesosome, palpal, valval, mama and 154 more...
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Fun words
waddle, lovely, wanker, wobble, bobo, booboo, smooch, peon, snuffle, squeak, squirt, hoof and 15 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir The so genannten fisch. Mar 10, 2011