shabu-shabu

Borrowed from Japanese しゃぶしゃぶ (shabushabu); onomatopoeic, resembling the sound emitted when the ingredients are stirred in the pot.

shabu-shabu (uncountable)

1. A Japanese dish of thinly sliced meat and vegetables, cooked piece by piece in hot water at the table by the diners.

• hot pot, hotpot
• steamboat
• sukiyaki

shabu-shabu

1. Nonstandard spelling of sabu-sabu (“meth”).

shabu-shabu

1. Nonstandard spelling of syabu-syabu (“meth”).

• syabu-syabu
• Shabu Shabu

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese Hepburn romaji しゃぶしゃぶ (shabushabu).

• Hyphenation: sha‧bu-sha‧bu
• IPA^(key): /ˌsjabu ˈsjabu/, [ˌsja.bʊ ˈsja.bʊ]

shabu-shabu

1. shabu-shabu (Japanese hotpot dish of thinly sliced meat and vegetables)
2. shabu-shabu restaurant