What does daebak mean in Korean?
대박 Daebak
Also written: 대박이다
Meaning
Jackpot / insane — wow in a good or bad way.
- When
- Appeared around 2004, peaked around 2010
- Heard in
- daily life, exclamations, reviews
- Feels
- exclamations, emphatic
- Politeness
- Casual. Fine with friends and online; skip it in formal writing or with people you should be polite to.
How Koreans use Daebak
이거 대박인데?
This is daebak, right?
대박 사건이었다.
That was a daebak incident.
Similar slang in other languages
- US English
- sheesh
- Japanese
- ヤバい
- Chinese (mainland)
- 绝绝子
- Spanish
- padre
- French
- dinguerie, ouf