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Yabba (disambiguation)

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Yabba (also Yabber) (v)(v.tr) pron. "Yä-bä" is a word which has a number of possible meanings:

  • "Yabba" (1878–1942), nickname of Stephen Gascoigne, a well-known heckler at the Sydney Cricket Ground
  • A shortening of Yabba-Dabba-Doo!, a phrase from the popular television animated series The Flintstones
  • Yabba, an English word of Australian Aboriginal origin meaning "to talk"
  • alternative spelling of Yaba (drug), a Thai drug containing methamphetamine and caffeine
  • Tillandsia 'Yabba', a hybrid cultivar of the genus Tillandsia in the Bromeliad family
  • the fictional mining town of Bundanyabba (known as “The Yabba”), based on Broken Hill, where much of the action takes place in Wake in Fright