Turbo
German, noun
Turbo is a German masculine noun meaning “clipping of Turbolader (“turbosupercharger”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Turbo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineclipping of Turbolader (“turbosupercharger”)
- 2
informalmasculineboost (stark improvement in the performance of some device, process or activity)
- 3
informalmasculineA policy of changing in the administrative or legal process aiming to quicken an infrastructural development.
Wir brauchen einen Turbo für die Windenergie.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Turbo
- Turbos genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Turbo in German?
Turbo appears 5.5 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).