nabe

[neyb]

noun

Slang.

1. a neighborhood movie theater.

2. neighborhood.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nabe¹

First recorded in 1930–35; shortening and respelling of neighborhood

Example Sentences

“I wouldn’t say these are certain times,” Martin Holdrich, senior economist at Woods & Poole Economics, said Monday in discussing NABE’s latest outlook.

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When Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party chairman, criticized senior ruling party candidate Na Kyung-won over her alleged pro-Japanese views, he called her “nabe,” a combination of letters of her name and that of late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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Nabe in Japanese means pot, whose Korean translation is “naembi,” which can be used as a derogatory slang term to refer to a woman with many sex partners.

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When Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party chairman, criticized senior ruling party candidate Na Kyung-won over her alleged pro-Japanese views, he called her “nabe,” a combination of parts of the names of Na and late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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Nabe in Japanese means pot, whose Korean translation is “naembi” that can be used as a derogatory slang term to refer to a woman with many sex partners.

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Related Words

• ambience 
• surroundings