Dictionary.com recently added a listing for the term “jabroni.” Of course, this is a term The Rock has used numerous times in WWE. The Rock has said in the past that he credits WWE Hall of Famer The Iron Sheik for the term. You can check out the Dictionary.com listing for “jabroni” below:
jabroni [juh-broh-nee]
noun
Slang. a stupid, foolish, or contemptible person; loser:
She always has a comeback to own the trolls and jabronis on Twitter.
Shut your mouth, you dumb jabroni!
Also called en·hance·ment tal·ent [en-hans-muhnt tal-uhnt], job·ber [job-er]. Professional Wrestling. a wrestler whose purpose is to lose matches against headlining wrestlers in order to build up the status and fame of the headliners:
The man is a legend in the ring—he eats jabronis for breakfast.
WWE issued the following:
The Rock says know your role, and update your vocabulary.
Dictionary.com cooked up its biggest update ever, and jabroni was officially added as a new entry.
Yes, we put jabroni in the dictionary. We assume @TheRock could smell us cooking up this update the whole time. https://t.co/kNdHhsLYrn
— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) September 1, 2020
It’s not the first time The Most Electrifying Man in All of Entertainment has helped usher WWE vernacular into the dictionary. In 2007, SmackDown landed in the pages of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, nine years after The People’s Champ uttered the phrase for the first time.
