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  • noun Plural form of baboo.

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Examples

  • March 8, 2008 @ 1: 07 pm yay, baboos! and yay, you!

    Liveblogging the NICU « A Bird’s Nest 2008

  • In "The Gen X Reader," Mark Saltveit writes, 'All my life I've listened to baboos bragging to the media that they're going to make peace and love, then revolution, go back to the land, create a disco inferno, and -- in the 1980s-dress for success and wealth.

    Generalizations X 2008

  • Generations are meant to rub each other the wrong way -- they're meant to cast sidelong glances as they march through the changing of the guard -- and some Xers have taken to calling baby boomers "" baboos. ''

    Generalizations X 2008

  • These baboos and their newspapers, I am told, would only become dangerous at a crisis; and by a crisis is understood a disastrous European war.

    The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

  • Little groups of baboos [4] and bunnias [5] stood looking after, laughing and speculating; a native policeman, staring also, gave them sharp orders to disperse, and they said to him, "Peace, brother."

    Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • The native staff of a garden consists of, say, two baboos, or book-keepers and clerks, a doctor baboo, sirdars or overseers, and chowkidars or line watchmen.

    Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

  • There is no defined place for these boys and baboos: they sleep on the floor of the saloon, without pillow or mat, wearing the dress of the day-time.

    Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887

  • By 6 A.M. most mornings we have a "reception" of infants, brought by their baboos, and accompanied by the elder children of the family

    Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887

  • Sialkot thinking we were 'shehri baboos' with deep pockets.

    ALL THINGS PAKISTAN 2008

  • (((uccellina))) congratulations and best wishes and hugs for the baboos! so exciting they are both home! what little sweet peas.

    Home again, home again, jiggity jig. « A Bird’s Nest 2008

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