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job
verb- to rob, to steal, to cheat US, 1889
- “Pinched. Jobbed. Swiped. Stole,” he says, happily. “You know, man, like somebody boosted my threads.” — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 94, 1962
- So, the Red Sox were jobbed out of Game Three and the bubble-gum chewing Big Red Machine took the Series lead. — Bill Cardoso, The Maltese Sangweech, p. 178, 1984
- “He says he’s sure he’s being jobbed,” Breda said. — Joseph Wambaugh, Fugitive Nights, p. 118, 1992
- to suffer a planned, voluntary loss in a professional wrestling match US
- In any case, rumours have Hogan facing someone else (who’s willing to job?) in place of Gordy. — Herb’s Wrestling Tidbits, 4 April 1990
- — Washington Post, p. 36, 10 March 2000: “A wrestling glossary”
- When Backlund refused to hand over the belt, he was screwed out of it in a setup with the Iron Sheik, who in turn jobbed it to Hogan. — Rampage Magazine, p. 71, September 2000
- to hit or strike; to punch AUSTRALIA, 1915
- JOB, TO–To attack; to strike. — Gilbert H. Lawson, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924
- He was a prisoner, trying to escape, but I apprehended him and jobbed him one. — Alexander Buzo, Norm and Ahmed, p. 8, 1969
- to inject a drug US
- — John B. Williams, Narcotics and Hallucinogenics, p. 113, 1967
▶ job a line
in sports betting, to change the odds without bettors’ knowledge US- I mean, I’d heard about BMs jobbing lines, but Barry had the kind of customers you didn’t do it with on a whim. — Gary Mayer, Bookie, p. 172, 1974
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