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sabo

sabo verb: to get someone in trouble, to prank, to sabotage another's efforts.

Verb

sabo (third-person singular simple present sabos or saboes, present participle saboing, simple past and past participle saboed)

  1. (Singapore, Singlish, colloquial, informal, transitive) To get someone in trouble, to prank, to sabotage another's efforts.

Noun

sabo (plural sabos)

  1. (slang) A saboteur.

Proper noun capitalized: Sabo

Sabo

  1. A surname.

Forms of sabo

Verb
third-person singular presentsabos
third-person singular presentsaboes
present participlesaboing
past participlesaboed
pastsaboed
Noun
pluralsabos

Origin of sabo

Clipping of sabotage.

Phrases with sabo

Questions about sabo

What does sabo mean?
Sabo means to get someone in trouble, to prank, to sabotage another's efforts.
What part of speech is sabo?
Sabo can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of sabo?
The past tense of sabo is saboed.

Words near sabo in the dictionary

  1. Sablone
  2. Sablones
  3. sably
  4. Sablé
  5. Sablé-sur-Sarthe
  6. sabo
  7. saboed
  8. saboes
  9. saboing
  10. Sabol
  11. Sabols

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