Home › Words › J › jiboneyjiboneyjiboney · noun — A low-level tough or thug, a mean man.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyPossibly from dialectal Italian giambone (“ham”, also “self-important fool”).nounA low-level tough or thug, a mean man.e.g.“When I first saw him, he was being chewed out by some jiboney. I thought the guy was his boss.” — 2008, Ed Goldberg, Dead Air:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.jigaboo 57% match — A black person. vs jiboney →jiver 57% match — One who jives. vs jiboney →jibber 56% match — A horse that jibs, i.e. refuses, stops short. vs jiboney →goon 56% match — A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence. vs jiboney →bhoy 56% match — A tough, a thug. vs jiboney →jiggambob 54% match — Something that one does not know the name of. vs jiboney →jerko 54% match — A jerk; an obnoxious person. vs jiboney →geebag 54% match — An irritating or obnoxious person. vs jiboney →