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ROBERTS: Michael, in the past 48 hours after that press conference there's been some buzz on conservative blogs that you were a bit of a yaba (ph) at that press conference, you were heckling Senator McCain, you were asking impertinent questions.
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Hey, yaba daba doo, it really is time to leave the stone age.
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A word attributed to Wuywurung is the Australian slang term yabber 'talk,' which is probably from Wuywurung yaba 'speak'; another possibility is mia-mia, a synonym for gunyah 'a temporary shelter of the Aborigines, usu. a simple frame of branches covered with bark, leaves, or grass,' about which you can read in exhaustive detail here:In the Australian National Dictionary 1988 we are told that it comes from Wathawurung and Wuywurung.
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But within the past eight or nine months, yaba has flowed from the Seneca Social Club to every street corner.
Hardcase Simmons, Dan 2001
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Conference should expel those individuals who call themselves the Marxist Tendency within the ANC 4 and are connected with the publication of Inqaba yaba Sebenzi and involved in counter-revolutionary activities which are calculated to confuse our workers, discredit our movement and derail our revolution.
African National Congress National Consultative Conference 1985
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The authorities seized 1.6 million methamphetamine pills - known locally as yaba, or "crazy medicine" - 40.4kg of heroin, 295kg of marijuana and 8.5kg of crystallised methamphetamine, or
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Indeed, yaba is rumoured to be produced inside Burma by the United Wa State Army UWSA, a Chinese-speaking ethnic group and a significant producer of South East Asia's narcotics.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Malcolm Moore 2011
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Rubel had yaba addiction, as they came to know that Rubel was a drug addict they forbade Iti to develop any relation with Rubel.
The New Nation 2010
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Rubel had yaba addiction, as they came to know that Rubel was a drug addict they forbade Iti to develop any relation with Rubel.
The New Nation 2010
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Soldiers of the Pha Muang Task Force on Monday seized about 400,000 methamphetamine pills, or yaba, smuggled across the border from Burma, in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai.
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Law & Order - Season 13, Episode 12 - "Under God"
May 23, 2007