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yab

yab verb: to satirize or roast; to abuse verbally.

Verb

yab (third-person singular simple present yabs, present participle yabbing, simple past and past participle yabbed)

  1. (Nigeria, ambitransitive) To satirize or roast; to abuse verbally.
    • But in between the bouts of light-hearted yabbing Fela began to insert serious political challenges. He attacked prevalent attitudes towards self determination which he abhorred. He stated that black people were being robbed.1974, Afriscope, volume 4, numbers 1-6, page 42

Forms of yab

third-person singular presentyabs
present participleyabbing
past participleyabbed
pastyabbed

Origin of yab

From yap.

Questions about yab

What does yab mean?
Yab means to satirize or roast; to abuse verbally.
What part of speech is yab?
Yab is a verb.
What is the past tense of yab?
The past tense of yab is yabbed.

Words near yab in the dictionary

  1. yaar
  2. yaara
  3. yaars
  4. yaas
  5. yaasa
  6. yab
  7. YABA
  8. yaba daba doo
  9. Yabaki
  10. Yabakis
  11. yabba

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