collabo
English
Pronunciation
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Noun
collabo (plural collabos)
- (music, slang) A collaboration with another artist, in urban contemporary music.
- (slang) A collaborator; a traitor.
- 2020, Cara Black, Three Hours in Paris, page 194:
- "Look, our doctor's been arrested. And the veterinarian, well, he's a collabo. It's too dangerous for him to stay here. We could all be killed."
Verb
collabo (third-person singular simple present collabos, present participle collaboing, simple past and past participle collaboed)
- (music, slang, intransitive) To collaborate with another artist, in urban contemporary music.
- 2004, CMJ New Music Report, number 891, page 6:
- The Yohimbe Brothers are DJ Logic (the jazz-influenced turntable wizard who had collaboed with Medeski Martin And Wood and Body Count) and guitarist Vernon Reid (the dreaded fret-monster behind Living Colour and various solo excursions) […]
French
Etymology
Clipping of collaborateur.
Pronunciation
Noun
collabo m or f by sense (plural collabos)
- (derogatory) quisling, traitor, collaborator
- Synonyms: collaborateur, quisling
Nigerian Pidgin
Etymology
From English collab, a clipping of collaboration.
Adverb
collabo
- together
- 2025 August 22, “2027 elections and oda tins wey increase mass insecurity - Chief of Defence staff”, in BBC News Pidgin:
- "Wetin don change be say we get collabo with all di organisations… and na why we don see all dis success."
- "What changed is that we got together with all the organisations… and it's why we have seen all this success."
Noun
collabo
- collaboration
- 2019 November 21, “Ed Sheeran, Burna Boy, and Stormzy collabo dey make pipo hala”, in BBC News Pidgin:
- Nigerian musician Burna Boy don confam say collabo wey im do with Ghana ogbonge singer Stormzy and English singer Ed Sheeran go drop on November 22, 2019.
- Nigerian musician Burna Boy confirmed a collaboration with Ghana ogbonge singer Stormzy and ENglish singer Ed Sheeran will drop on November 22, 2019.