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gganbu

gganbu noun: a best friend.

Noun

gganbu (plural gganbu)

  1. A best friend.
    • If a gganbu is, as Il-nam describes it: “a good friend, one you trust a lot [and] you share things with,” then Sae-byeok and Ji-yeong become gganbu over the course of this hour of television.2021 September 22, Kayti Burt, “Squid Game’s Most Heartbreaking Hour is Also Its Best”, in Den of Geek, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2021

Forms of gganbu

pluralgganbu

Origin of gganbu

Borrowed from Korean 깐부 (kkanbu).

Questions about gganbu

What does gganbu mean?
Gganbu means a best friend.
What part of speech is gganbu?
Gganbu is a noun.
What is the plural of gganbu?
The plural of gganbu is gganbu.

Words near gganbu in the dictionary

  1. gfx
  2. GFY
  3. GFYS
  4. gg
  5. GG no re
  6. gganbu
  7. GGBFS
  8. GGBS
  9. GGE
  10. GGEI
  11. GGer

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