Meanings
plural huboons
- A human-baboon hybrid; an ape-like person.
2004, "Mr. X", Shout It Out, Club Devo https://web.archive.org/web/20080705113221/http://www.clubdevo.com/mp/shout.html Everything that 'makes the world go round', or 'progress with a price tag' as the huboons say on their way to work
3 more examples
I'm a huboon, baby, I'm a cross between a human and an ape
c. 1976, Devo, Huboon Stomp (song)She's got all the huboons crying her name
c. 1976, Devo, Soo Bawlz (song)Your first giddy reaction would be to wonder whether the patient, if he survived at all, would still be human being, [sic] or rather a baboon, or perhaps an entirely new hybrid species, no doubt to be called a "huboon."
1994, Joseph S. Berliner, “Transformation as Transplanation”, in A World Fit For People, page 88
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