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  •   I took the tabo, a bowl or oftentimes a Big Gulp Slurpee cup we usually keep in the shower to wash after you do number two.

    Loose Morals Melissa Ann Chadburn 2010

  • Wes, WD 40-once had a gunsmith show me a box full of ruined trigger's from it, was told by instructor's in office machine school stuff is tabo for use, bought a high standard 22 that took 2 years to clean trigger ass'y. to get crap out, taxidermist recomended polishing mt. goat horn's with it (work's great!).

    The Great Barrel Break-In Fad 2007

  • Pis alors tabo traité ya des parents qui traitent pas alors t'en rechope encore et toujours!!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • The last time I was there the toilet bowl flush was not working if you want to flush your thing you have to get water from the bucket using the tabo, the tap has no water, no toilet paper, no hand dryer....nothing.

    Philippine international airports Arlene 2005

  • Alone and helpless for three days in the underground darkness, the boy was a prey to awful fear, but at the end of the third day, having by accident rubbed slightly the tabo with his hand, at once

    Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

  • At once mindful of his mother, he told the multo to take him home, and in the winking of an eye, still carrying the tabo in his hand, he stood before his mother.

    Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

  • In native dwellings these shells serve the poor for cups (_tabo _) and a variety of other useful domestic utensils, whilst by all classes they are converted into ladles with wooden handles.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • The daughter also went in to inquire for her mother, and as she admiringly touched the tabo the multo made her prisoner, and the two became the slaves of the young man and were never heard of again.

    Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

  • _Met_ II 760 (the home of _Inuidia_ is _nigro squalentia tabo_) and

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • The boy, from fear of the man, did as he was told, and when the ground opened, went down into the cave and got the tabo.

    Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

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