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yobo

yobo is the alternative form of yobbo.

Noun

yobo (plural yobos)

  1. (historical) A soldier's female Korean lover or hired prostitute.
    • Grandpa doesn't want Grandma and their kids and grandkids to know that he had to get penicillin shots all the time, or that he smoked boo (marijuana) on a daily basis, or that he dealt in the black market, or that he had yobos (purchased live-in sex slaves).2019, Ron Cook, On Guard in the General's Chorus, page 2
  2. (Hawaii) A Korean person.

Meaning of yobbo

Noun

yobbo (plural yobbos or yobboes)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang) A yob.
    • Yeah, but you heard what Blake said. We wouldn't stand a chance against Pike's mob. They're a right bunch of yobbos.1966 September 24, Brian Hayles, “The Smugglers, episode 3” (14:11 from the start), in Doctor Who, season 4, episode 3, spoken by Ben Jackson (Michael Craze), via BBC
    Synonyms:
    yob

Forms of yobo

pluralyobos

Origin of yobo

Borrowed from Korean 여보 (yeobo, “darling, sweetheart”).

Questions about yobo

What does yobo mean?
Yobo means a soldier's female Korean lover or hired prostitute.
What is yobo the alternative form of?
Yobo is the alternative form of yobbo.
What part of speech is yobo?
Yobo is a noun.
What is the plural of yobo?
The plural of yobo is yobos.

Words near yobo in the dictionary

  1. yobibyte
  2. yobibytes
  3. yobidashi
  4. yobimodoshi
  5. yobisute
  6. yobo
  7. yobos
  8. yobs
  9. yocco
  10. Yocham
  11. Yochams

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yobo (page history and authors); yobbo (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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