Meaning & use
Gazabo
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(Dated slang) A fellow or man, often used with a mildly comic or dismissive tone.
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"Who's that gazabo standing by the door?" the old detective grumbled.
The novel's narrator describes every unfamiliar visitor to town as "some gazabo passing through."
A note on using this word
"Gazabo" flourished in early 20th-century American slang and is now mostly encountered in vintage fiction and film dialogue.
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