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jiboney en · NOUN

Etymology

Possibly from dialectal Italian giambone (“ham”, also “self-important fool”).

Meanings

1. A low-level tough or thug, a mean man.
   • And that jiboney across the hall. He makes life worse than it is. Where he gets his money for booze, who knows? 2011, Richard Matheson, Steel:
   • I don't mean a couple incisors that anyone could lose by saying the wrong thing to some jiboney out in front of Pope's Pub 2009, John Flaherty, Puff:
   • When I first saw him, he was being chewed out by some jiboney. I thought the guy was his boss. 2008, Ed Goldberg, Dead Air:

Forms

Deriveds

jabroni