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hoobaes

hoobaes is the plural of hoobae.

Meaning of hoobae

Noun

hoobae (plural hoobaes)

  1. An underclassman or junior, in the context of Korea.
    • I love Korean culture, especially the sunbae/hoobae relationship. And in baseball, you are always someone's sunbae or hoobae.2010, "The Man in the Middle", Busan HAPS, October/November 2010, page 9
  2. (South Korean idol fandom) A newer or less experienced idol.

Questions about hoobaes

What is hoobaes the plural of?
Hoobaes is the plural of hoobae.

Words near hoobaes in the dictionary

  1. hoo-has
  2. hoo-hoo
  3. hoo-hoos
  4. hooah
  5. hoobae
  6. hoobaes
  7. Hoobler
  8. Hooblers
  9. hooch
  10. hooched
  11. hooched up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hoobaes (page history and authors); hoobae (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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