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    [Noun]  | "gar*ban*zo" | \ gär-ˈbän-(ˌ)zō \


    1: chickpea


    Origin: 1712 ;

     Borrowed from Spanish (earlier usually garvanço), alteration (perhaps by blending with garroba "carob, {see: |algaroba|algaroba}" or gálbana "kind of pea") of earlier arvanço, ervanço, of uncertain origin;

      * Note : Recorded as arbānsuš or arbānšuš among Hispanic words in the Arabic pharmacopoeia Kitāb al-Mustaʻīnī of Yūsuf bin Isḥāq ibn Baklāriš (ca. 1106). As noted by Joan Coromines (Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico), Greek erébinthos "chickpea" is unlikely to be the immediate source; the change > is ad hoc, and the outcome of -th- as z/ç is questionable. The initial arv-/erv- is comparable with a widespread group of words presumably of Mediterranean substratal origin—in addition to Greek erébinthos and órobos "the vetch Vicia ervilia," there are Latin ervum "the vetch Vicia ervilia," Germanic *arw(a)-(a)itō "pea" (whence Old High German araweiz, Old Saxon eriwit, erit, Old Norse ertr), Middle Irish orbaind "grains." The suffix of the Spanish word (*-antio?) is of obscure origin.;

    [Noun]  | "garbanzo bean" 


    1: chickpea


    Origin: 1944 ;

     {see: |garbanzo|garbanzo};

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     [ "garbanzo" ]

    1: A way of saying something is terrible, garbage, trash, etc.

      * e.g.,  ... Jorge: Did you see me playing at the basketball game last night? I missed all my shots! Absolute garbanzo. 

     [ "garbanzo" ]

    1: verb. to garbanzo. garbonzoing. garbonzoed.

      * e.g.,  ...  Oops, I just garbanzoed. 


     [ "garbanzo" ]

    2:  Flatulence caused by consumption of legumes without prior use of Beano.

      * e.g.,  ...  Don't garbanzo my space. 


     [ "garbanzo" ]

    3:  To stink up a room with silent but very deadly (SBVD) gas.

      * e.g.,  ...  Dude, did you garbanzo my pizza? 


     [ "garbanzo" ]

    4:  To secretly sneak gas-causing food into someone's meal while pretending to cook them something out of love.

     [ "Garbanzo" ]

    1: Means something is garbage, or worthless, or pathetic...

      * e.g.,  ... That was absolutely garbanzo, dont ever say it again! 


     [ "Garbanzo" ]

    2: See John Vespa

     [ "garbanzos" ]

    1: a woman's breasts ( from another term for chickpeas)

      * e.g.,  ... her garbanzos jiggled as she moved even though her bra was as secure as ever. 

     [ "Garbanzo" ]

    1: A garbanzo is any type of pill that’ll have u leanin.

      * e.g.,  ... I just popped a garbanzo, bro popped a garbanzo in the club nigga was tweakin . 

     [ "Garbanzo" ]

    1: Racial slur for a brown person, specifically of Mediterranean descent, e.g. Arabs, Italians, Greeks, etc.

      * e.g.,  ... Gino? Don't talk to him, he's a fuckin' dirty garbanzo. Keep your dirty garbanzo hands off my bike and go back to where you came from, Ali. 

     [ "garbanzo bean" ]

    1: A way-cooler word for chickpeas, and a major ingredient in hummus.

      * e.g.,  ... This is your first night working the salad bar? Okay. First thing you need to do is figure out where we keep the garbanzo beans. Check the coolers. Find them. I don't even know what the freaking things are, but God help us if we ever run out of them. 


     [ "garbanzo bean" ]

    2: Something that must remain stocked at all times in college cafeteria salad bars. This is on pain of death or violent dismemberment by hoardes of trendy, enraged, pita-and-hummus-consuming college students.

     [ "Garbanzo beans" ]

    1: a person or action that is utterly wack.

      * e.g.,  ... Man homeboy is straight garbanzo beans on the sticks! 


     [ "Garbanzo beans" ]

    2: garbage or bammer

      * e.g.,  ... that bitch at the club was garbanzo beans. 

     [ "garbanzo beaner" ]

    1: a person who is white or obviously not a beaner tries to act as such

      * e.g.,  ... that white person is posing as a gangster (meaning a "cool" mexican) he is a garbanzo beaner 

     [ "garbanzo beans" ]

    1: A short phrase spoken when you or someone else said something that was complete garbage or ludicrous.

      * e.g.,  ... "Going to make the best of it, and see what happens. Garbanzo beans." 

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