Fighting Talk: Boxing and the Modern Lexicon by Bob Jones
Author:Bob Jones [Jones, Bob]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Boxing, History, Linguistics, Reference, Sports, Words
ISBN: 9781775534396
Amazon: B00DZ6RNY2
Publisher: Random House New Zealand
Published: 2013-08-15T12:00:00+00:00
JAB
The straight left lead (with southpaws it’s a straight right) is the most important punch in a boxer’s repertoire. Until about 1980 it was always referred to as a straight left, but today it is described as a jab.
While the word doesn’t originate from boxing, being first recorded in 1825 in Scotland for a lunge with a sharp object, today it is often used in its boxing sense in non-fistic circumstances.
‘Adobe gives hearty reply to Apple’s jab’ a New Zealand Herald article was headed in May 2010, referring to a battle of words between the two computer giants.
‘But Henry then landed a jab while sprinkling salt into the South African’s wounds’ wrote the Sunday Star-Times in July 2010, reporting on a dispute between the respective South African and New Zealand rugby football coaches.
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