ABACAB 

when the band Genesis was putting an album together in 1981 they took a series of musical notes located somewhere in a song (BACABA) and reversed it. The reversed notation became the new album's title. It was released that fall and hit the top 10 around the world. Hits from the album included "No Reply", the title track, "Man On the Corner" and "Keep It Dark", which is about an alien contact experience (honest!). The other tracks are really good as well. ABACAB's success showed that Genesis had become a major multi-platinum force for the new decade.

During the winter of 1982 the song 'ABACAB' scored on the charts. The title is pronounced "ah-buh-cab". So how do you write a song with that title? It's just a strange nonsence word, so it was used in a call and response method in the chorus. The rest of the lyrics make absolutely no sence whatsoever, the whole song's lyrics really add up to saying nothing. Still, that's much better than the cookie cutter manufactured method of songwriting used by so many people today (all this generic "baby baby baby" stuff - bleccch!). Yet the song is very tuneful, it's quite complex (this is Genesis, after all), and it became another huge hit for the band. Check out the entire album, it's really that good!

ABACAB by I Saw U2 Live Twice February 28, 2009

ABACAB 

an album by british prog-rock band, genesis.

"dude, i totally own that genesis album, 'abacab' on vinyl!"
"no way brah, that's sick hard to find!"
"i know, i'm so awesome!"

ABACAB by christopher lee May 14, 2005

Abacab 

In Gears of War, to brutally kill the other team for more than five rounds, while your team survives without anyone dying. Please note that if a round goes to a draw, you must restart and try to do the above statement again. Draw=Try Again.

COG just "abacabed" the Locust 15 to 0... Thats awesome..

Abacab by McCartney August 9, 2007

ABACAB 

A Cheater.

In chronological booty-order:

A - hot item
B - dimwitted cuckold
A- hot item
C - poacher
A - hot item
B - dimwitted cuckold

Don't encourage that chick, dude, she's ABACAB.

ABACAB by jason.argonaut April 1, 2011

ABACAB 

A.B.A.C.A.B. - All Bastards Are Cops Are Bastards

Abacab is an album by the genesis, featuring a really good song with the same name. Whatever I wrote in the description is just based off of my own thoughts.

ABACAB by thedefilerofdefinitions March 22, 2017

Abacab 

In Gears of War, to brutally kill the other team for more than five rounds, while your team survives without anyone dying. Please note that if a round goes to a draw, you must restart and try to do the above statement again. Draw=Try Again.

COG just "abacabed" the Locust 15 to 0... Thats awesome..

Abacab by McCartney January 1, 2009

Abacab 

Something which is ambiguous and hard-to-understand in nature.

The word originate from the 1981 British rock band Genesis, in which a song was titled by the same name. The song was named "A-B-A-C-A-B" to remember the original chord progression of the song; however the song kept the name afterwards as the band thought it was cool. Later on in 2007, the band had to remove the song from the list of songs to be played on their tour due to the band forgetting what the song even meant.

The ambiguity of both the song, and the word that came from the song; has caused the word to become a pseudo-slang word about ambiguity and confusion.

"In all fairness, love and romance comes as an abacab for most people."

Most organized-religion come to answer the age-old questions of the meaning of life and what happens in the afterlife; these two-topics are perhaps the two-largest examples of abacabs.

Dark-matter due to it's ambiguous and non-physical form, is an abacab.

Abacab by Gabriil March 7, 2024