tabancan.
/taˈbaŋkə/, /təˈbaŋkə/, U.S. /təˈbæŋkə/, Caribbean English /taˈbaŋka/, /tʌˈbaŋkʌ/ Caribbean.
A state or feeling of depression or melancholy, esp. as a result of unrequited love or the end of a romantic relationship; lovesickness; (also) deep longing for a person or thing which is absent or lost. In Trinidad and Tobago often in carnival tabanca, referring to the melancholy and longing felt after the end of the country's annual carnival celebration.
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1968 Star (Dominica) 30 Mar. 9/1 Regis is a changed man... Perhaps he must be having tabanca.
1996 Inter Press Service (Nexis) 15 Aug. While a person experiencing it is often the butt of jokes, tabanca can have deadly consequences. Attacks by spurned lovers account for the majority of murder cases in Trinidad and Tobago.
2014 ‘B. Garlin’ & K. Thompson Carnival Tabanca (transcribed from song) in ‘B. Garlin’ Differentology As soon as Carnival done this year Well I just start ketching fever... Ah have ah tabanca, carnival tabanca Ah have ah tabanca, real bad tabanca.
2020 @ChereeseLavonne 1 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 20 May 2020) Tabanca hitting me hard today prolly cuz last night i saw ex-bae.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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