🗣️ A chatterbox 🎧 A music fan 🎶 Fast dance music 🤝 A friend

gabber

9.4

A person who likes very fast electronic dance music

noun

Slang

: fan de gabber

As a true gabber, she could talk for hours without stopping.

Examples

Many gabbers gathered at the concert to enjoy their favorite music.
The gabber at the party kept everyone entertained with endless stories.
He is such a gabber at parties.
I can't keep up with that gabber!
At the gathering, the gabber entertained everyone with rapid-fire jokes and anecdotes.
As a dedicated gabber, he effortlessly filled the room with his stories and lively chatter.
A group of enthusiastic gabbers danced together, celebrating their love for the energetic music.

Synonyms

chatterbox

vsgabber

Informal

9 4.2

A person who talks a lot and often does not stop

is broader and also means very rapid speech or a music fan

jibber

vsgabber

3 9.9

A person who talks very fast and is hard to understand

covers rapid talking generally and can also mean a music fan

motormouth

vsgabber

Offensive

3 8.4

A person who talks quickly and too much, annoying others

is broader and also covers rapid talking or being a fan of fast electronic music

yapper

vsgabber

Offensive

1 7.9

A person who talks a lot in a loud, annoying way

is more about rapid speech or music fandom than loud annoyance

yabber

vsgabber

Australian

1 9.9

A person who talks a lot about small, unimportant things

is broader and can mean rapid speech or a music fan

chatterer

vsgabber

Informal

1 5.5

A person who talks a lot and often annoys others

is broader and also covers very fast speech or music fandom

jabberer

vsgabber

Informal

8.0

A person who talks quickly about unimportant things

includes rapid speaking or music fandom rather than only trivial talk

How Talkative

motormouth

Offensive

3 8.4

gabber

Slang

9.4

chatterbox

Informal

9 4.2

talker

69 2.1

conversationalist

12 6.3

Surface Forms

gabber singular

gabbers plural

Morphology

gabber = gab (transparent) = gab + er

This is a regular agent noun formed from 'gab' + '-er', so the talkative-person meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

Gabber is formed from the simple English word gab ('to talk') and the suffix -er ('one who'). So a gabber is someone who gabs a lot, and the same name was sometimes used for fans of the fast music because they were part of that scene.