Meaning
Flabby, loose, sloppy, and lacking firmness — of a soft, wobbly body, a limp handshake, or anything slack, floppy, and poorly held together. Often doubled as 'slabba-slabba' to stress the drooping sloppiness, the word carries a note of mild disgust or mockery for the soft and the shapeless, whether a person's slack flesh, a weak grip, or a badly made, saggy thing. Its very sound flops and sags, fitting the loose, unfirm quality it describes.
Examples
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Di mattress ole an slabba.
The mattress is old and saggy.
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Him handshake slabba-slabba.
His handshake is limp and floppy.
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Di work come out slabba, nuh firm at all.
The work came out sloppy, not firm at all.
Origin
A sound-symbolic word (compare 'slab', 'slobber') for floppy softness; the doubling 'slabba-slabba' intensifies.
How it’s used
Flabby/loose/sloppy; intensified as 'slabba-slabba'. Compare 'dugu-dugu', 'sapps'.