Bamboula : nf As well as terms with similar meaning: toddler, bombs, feast, binge (See these words), the word bamboula indicates a party of pleasure where one drinks a lot, generally in the company of women, and where the satisfactions of the table have a good place.
This word would be a Bantu term, imported into France by Senegalese skirmishers and used to designate a tam-tam, then the dance performed to the sound of this instrument.
The name of the bamboula, like that of another dance, la java, has taken on the meaning of "debauchery". Perhaps her kinship with the bamboche helped there?
It was also thought that "making bamboula" could mean "to get drunk", "to blacken yourself like a negro", because of the nickname of "Bamboula" often given to blacks in the first half of the XNUMXth century.