Etymology

baluba

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Today it means: A wild or unruly person. Full definition →

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The story

Named after a tribe in Katanga, involved in a fatal attack on Irish United Nations peacekeepers in 1961.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.