collabo

English

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Noun

collabo (plural collabos)

1. (music, slang) A collaboration with another artist, in urban contemporary music.
2. (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)

1. (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

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.la.bo/

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Noun

collabo m or f by sense (plural collabos)

1. (derogatory) quisling, traitor, collaborator

   Synonyms: collaborateur, quisling