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cusbah

cusbah is the alternative spelling of casbah.

Meaning of casbah

Noun

casbah (plural casbahs)

  1. The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
  2. The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
    • The king called up his jet fighters / He said, "You better earn your pay / Drop your bombs between the minarets / Down the casbah way"1982, Joe Strummer, Rock the Casbah
  3. (slang) A person's house or flat/apartment.
    • He gave me an earth-shattering kiss and whispered, “Come to my casbah and let me ply you with cupcakes.” […] We made good time getting to his apartment.2021, Erin L. Jungdahl, Meet Cute Chihuahua

Forms of cusbah

pluralcusbahs

Questions about cusbah

What is cusbah the alternative spelling of?
Cusbah is the alternative spelling of casbah.

Words near cusbah in the dictionary

  1. Cusabo
  2. Cusabos
  3. Cusack
  4. Cusacks
  5. Cusak
  6. cusbah
  7. cusbahs
  8. Cuscatancingo
  9. Cuscatlán
  10. Cusco
  11. cuscohygrine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cusbah (page history and authors); casbah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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