Yobo

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of yobbo (“person engaging in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness”). alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    A soldier's female Korean lover or hired prostitute. historical

    "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)."

  3. 3
    a cruel and brutal fellow wordnet
  4. 4
    A Korean person. Hawaii

Example

More examples

"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)."

Etymology

From Korean 여보 (yeobo, “darling, sweetheart”).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.