jiboney

jiboney

English

Noun

jiboney (plural jiboneys)

1. A low-level tough or thug, a mean man.
   • 2008, Dead Air by Ed Goldberg

     When I first saw him, he was being chewed out by some jiboney. I thought the guy was his boss.

   • 2011, Steel by Richard Matheson

     And that jiboney across the hall. He makes life worse than it is. Where he gets his money for booze, who knows?

   • 2009, Puff by John Flaherty

     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

See also

• jabroni

References

• 2009, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English By Tom Dalzell