gabber
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A fast, loud style of electronic dance music from the Netherlands
- noun
- /ˈɡæbər/
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gabber
- At the festival, fans danced all night to the high-energy beats of gabber music.
Examples
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The DJ played non-stop gabber tracks that got everyone on the dance floor moving.
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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
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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
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techno
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Surface Forms
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'.