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gabber

gabber

8.9
A fast, loud style of electronic dance music from the Netherlands
  • noun
  • /ˈɡæbər/
translation icon : gabber
  • At the festival, fans danced all night to the high-energy beats of gabber music.

Examples

  • The DJ played non-stop gabber tracks that got everyone on the dance floor moving.

  • Because there's this question: can "gabber gabe" really come after "mega-rave"?

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Gabber is known for its fast tempo and hard beats that originated in the Netherlands.

Synonyms

techno
vsgabber
41 4.4

Fast, loud electronic dance music that people dance to in clubs, usually without singing

is a harder, more specific style that originated in the Netherlands in the 1990s

How Fast

gabber
8.9
techno
41 4.4

Surface Forms

gabber singular
gabbers plural

Etymology

Gabber for the music comes from Dutch slang gabber meaning 'mate', a word used in Rotterdam clubs in the early 1990s. The name stayed because it was the music of a group of friends, so gabber now means the hard, fast dance style of those 'mates'.