imbo
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a clipping of imbecile + -o (diminutive suffix).
Noun[edit]
imbo (plural imbos)
- (Australia, slang) An idiot, a fool.
- 1974, Jim McNeil, How Does Your Garden Grow, Scene Three:
- SAM: Top idiots. Imbos.
- 1986, Paul Radley, Jacks Rivers And Me:
- “[D]on't let it go to your head, imbo. You might end up being all head and no body like Bandy-Andy.”
- 1990, Sammy Davis, Jr., Yes I Can:
- I blew three lights because the car in front of me was doing twenty miles an hour and I was afraid to weave in and out of lanes to pass him. “Just my luck to get behind an imbo in a Nash Rambler.
- 2014 June 14, MCruicky, Twitter[1], archived from the original on 24 May 2023:
- im an imbo, world's worst punter #fact handled it horribly as usual then found myself roaring at TV thinking horse won #wrong
References[edit]
Jonathon Green (2024) “imbo n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang