The Rock Reacts to ‘Jabroni’ Being Added to Dictionary.com

UPDATE: With “jabroni” an official word in the dictionary, The Rock has taken to social media to share his reaction. The Great One, who popularized the phrase (though as previously noted The Iron Sheik actually coined the phrase), posted to Twitter to give Sheik credit and react:

“Wow – 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 “Jabroni” (a noun, btw;) famous and part of culture, BUT the Iron Sheik made it famous in our wild wrestling locker rooms!”

Wow – 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 “Jabroni” (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

— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) September 1, 2020

ORIGINAL: Dictionary.com added an official listing for the word, “jabroni,” one of the popular words and insults coined by The Rock during his run in WWE. However, The Rock himself actually got it from WWE Hall of Famer The Iron Sheik, who he credited as where he got the trademark insult from before he started incorporating it in his own promos. Here’s the Dictionary.com listing for “Jabroni”:

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.