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Meaning of jabroni | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
d͡ʒəˈbɹoʊni

Definitions

  1. An obnoxious or contemptible person; a loser.
  2. A performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.

Examples

“Howard glared at the kid walking towards him. "Now look here, jabroni. These are my trails and that's my tree house you're playing house in, and I don't remember you asking me permission to be here.[…]"”
“Sometimes a person is stuck as a jabroni for life. Geraldo Rivera--there's a guy who no matter how high he grows his hair, how full he grows his moustache, or how dangerous an assignment he goes on as an "investigative reporter," he'll always be a jabroni.”
““I don’t want to be bullied again. I don’t want to feel like I have to stand in the cold again because some jabronis want to blow a three-foot cloud,” Richter says.”
“Get out of that, uh, jabroni outfit.”
“A jobber—also known as jabroni, extra, and enhancement talent—is playing the part of getting beat all the time.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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