Meaning

2 senses
  1. An obnoxious or contemptible person; a crybaby.

  2. (slang)A performer whose primary role is to lose according to social standing.

Origin

Alteration of earlier gibone (also spelled jiboney, jaboney, etc.), possibly from dialecta

Alteration of earlier gibone (also spelled jiboney, jaboney, etc.), possibly from dialectal Italian giambone (“ham”, also “self-important fool”). As a wrestling term, it was popularized by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who claimed to have borrowed it from the Iron Sheik. Prior to its popularization by Johnson, the term had also been used by Scott Hall, Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, and others.

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Forms

plural: jabronis

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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