{"id":319,"date":"2020-09-02T14:38:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T14:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=319"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:43:04","slug":"jabroni-the-rocks-catchphrase-given-official-dictionary-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"JABRONI!: The Rock&#039;s catchphrase given official dictionary status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital\/canoe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gettyimages-139068290-e1599055585820.jpg?quality=100&amp;strip=all\" title=\"Dwayne \" \/><\/p>\n<p> Do you smell what The Rock is cooking? <\/p>\n<p> If not, then you might be a jabroni. <\/p>\n<p> One of Dwayne Johnson&rsquo;s iconic wrestling catchphrases, &ldquo;jabroni,&rdquo; is now an official word after it was included as one of 650 words in the September update at a <\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/e\/new-words-dictionary-2020\/\">Dictionary.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                . <\/p>\n<p> According to the official dictionary definition, jabroni (a noun) is slang for &ldquo;a stupid, foolish, or contemptible person; loser.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p> There was also a second definition for the word, which likely only professional wrestling fans will understand: &ldquo;a wrestler whose purpose is to lose matches against headlining wrestlers in order to build status and fame of the headliners.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p> While the origins of the word are unknown, according to Dictionary.com, it could have come from the upper Italian dialect giambone, which means &ldquo;ham.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Rock Says - Jabroni Jackpot\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vUXIdSnof3M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> As The Rock, Johnson called many of his opponents jabronis in promos leading up to a featured match. To hype himself up, The Rock (in the third person) would often refer to himself as the &ldquo;jabroni beating, pie eating, trailblazing, eyebrow-raising, heart-stopping, elbow dropping, people&rsquo;s champ, The Rock!&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p> While Johnson is credited in popularizing the word in the late 1990s, jabroni actually originated by WWE Hall of Famer The Iron Sheik. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow &#8211; very cool!<br \/>Honored have a word actually make the dictionary. <br \/>Making my all my teachers very proud ??<br \/>For the record, I may have made the word \u201cJabroni\u201d (a noun, btw;) famous and part of ? culture, BUT the Iron Sheik made it famous in our wild wrestling locker rooms!? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ivsCkeVMJA\">https:\/\/t.co\/ivsCkeVMJA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRock\/status\/1300946363014737921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &ldquo;I was very lucky and fortunate to coin the word &lsquo;jabroni&rsquo; publically on TV. Utilize it as part of my Rock speak and have it be part of pop culture,&rdquo; Johnson said in the 2014 documentary &lsquo;The Sheik.&rsquo; &ldquo;When a lot of people think of &lsquo;jabroni&rsquo; they think, &lsquo;Oh it&rsquo;s The Rock&rsquo;s word.&rsquo; No, no, no, no, no. It&rsquo;s not my word. It&rsquo;s The Iron Sheik&rsquo;s word.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p> This isn&rsquo;t the first time one of Johnson&rsquo;s catchphrases has made the pages of a dictionary. In 2007, The Rock&rsquo;s phrase &ldquo;smackdown&rdquo; was made official by Merriam-Webster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Do you smell what The Rock is cooking? <\/p>\n<p>         If not, then you might be a jabroni. <\/p>\n<p>         One of Dwayne Johnson\u2019s iconic wrestling catchphrases, \u201cjabroni,\u201d is now an official word after it was included as one of 650 words in the September update at a <\/p>\n<p>        Dictionary.com<\/p>\n<p>        . <\/p>\n<p>         According to the official dictionary definition, jabroni (a noun) is slang for \u201ca stupid, foolish, or contemptible person; loser.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>         There was also a second definition for the word, which likely only professional wrestling fans will understand: \u201ca wrestler whose purpose is to lose matches against headlining wrestlers in order to build status and fame of the headliners.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>         While the origins of the word are unknown, according to Dictionary.com, it could have come from the upper Italian dialect giambone, which means \u201cham.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>         As The Rock, Johnson called many of his opponents jabronis in promos leading up to a featured match. To hype himself up, The Rock (in the third person) would often refer to himself as the \u201cjabroni beating, pie eating, trailblazing, eyebrow-raising, heart-stopping, elbow dropping, people\u2019s champ, The Rock!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>         While Johnson is credited in popularizing the word in the late 1990s, jabroni actually originated by WWE Hall of Famer The Iron Sheik. <\/p>\n<p>      Wow &#8211; very cool!Honored have a word actually make the dictionary. Making my all my teachers very proud ??For the record, I may have made the word \u201cJabroni\u201d (a noun, btw;) famous and part of ? culture, BUT the Iron Sheik made it famous in our wild wrestling locker rooms!? https:\/\/t.co\/ivsCkeVMJA\u2014 Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) September 1, 2020<\/p>\n<p>         \u201cI was very lucky and fortunate to coin the word \u2018jabroni\u2019 publically on TV. Utilize it as part of my Rock speak and have it be part of pop culture,\u201d Johnson said in the 2014 documentary \u2018The Sheik.\u2019 \u201cWhen a lot of people think of \u2018jabroni\u2019 they think, \u2018Oh it\u2019s The Rock\u2019s word.\u2019 No, no, no, no, no. It\u2019s not my word. It\u2019s The Iron Sheik\u2019s word.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>         This isn\u2019t the first time one of Johnson\u2019s catchphrases has made the pages of a dictionary. In 2007, The Rock\u2019s phrase \u201csmackdown\u201d was made official by Merriam-Webster.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}