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fubu

/ˈfu.bʊ/noun

fubu is a noun meaning “Fuck buddy, friend with benefits” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-B-U, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fubu is fubus.

What does fubu mean?

noun

  1. 1

    slangFuck buddy, friend with benefits.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fubu?

  • /ˈfu.bʊ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of fubu

  • fubus plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fubu?

Fubu appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does fubu come from?

Abbreviation of fuck buddy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).