Durbs, noun

/dɜːbz/
colloquial. An affectionate or jocular name for the city of Durban; Banana City, see banana sense 2. Sometimes in the phrase Durbs-by-the-sea.
1975 [see true sense b].
1975 S.K. Smith in Darling 12 Mar. 4Us chicks in ‘Durbs’ waits with bated breath for Bloss’s latest spiel.
1979 Darling 7 Feb. 25‘What’s it like up there?’ I ask again. ‘Like Durbs at Christmas time but without the sea,’ someone answers.
1984 Fair Lady 30 May 176South Africa’s first multiracial feminist group started in sleepy old Durbs years ago when others were still rabbiting on about sharing the washing-up.
1987 Fair Lady 13 May 87Complacency: In Durbs by the Sea (with a little help from the state of emergency) the tragic cry of the beloved country is a soothing murmur in the background.
1990 W. Henning in Sunday Times 2 Dec. (Mag. Sect.) 36These holidays, head for Durbs-by-the-sea. You could catch far more than a tan.
1991 G. Eichorn in Natal Mercury 3 Apr. 22Seems I’m not a Banana Boy...I mean, I know we’ve only been in Durbs about 17 years..and maybe I don’t qualify for some obscure technical reason on that account.
An affectionate or jocular name for the city of Durban; Banana City, see banana sense 2. Sometimes in the phrase Durbs-by-the-sea.
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