"jabroni" meaning in English

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          "text": "Howard glared at the kid walking towards him. \"Now look here, jabroni. These are my trails and that's my tree house you're playing house in, and I don't remember you asking me permission to be here.[…]\"",
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          "ref": "2013 March 27, Michael Ricci, “Semi-Charmed Kind of Word”, in Columbia Spectator:",
          "text": "Sometimes a person is stuck as a jabroni for life. Geraldo Rivera--there's a guy who no matter how high he grows his hair, how full he grows his moustache, or how dangerous an assignment he goes on as an \"investigative reporter,\" he'll always be a jabroni.",
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          "text": "“I don’t want to be bullied again. I don’t want to feel like I have to stand in the cold again because some jabronis want to blow a three-foot cloud,” Richter says.",
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