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

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English collab, a clipping of collaboration.

Adverb

collabo

1. together
   • 2025 August 22, “2027 elections and oda tins wey increase mass insecurity - Chief of Defence staff”, in BBC News Pidgin‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 August 2025:

     "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

1. collaboration
   • 2019 November 21, “Ed Sheeran, Burna Boy, and Stormzy collabo dey make pipo hala”, in BBC News Pidgin‎^[2], archived from the original on 24 October 2022:

     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 amazing Ghanaian singer Stormzy and English singer Ed Sheeran will drop on November 22, 2019.