jab jab
noun West Indian
A devil, in particular as represented in a carnival masquerade.There was the ole mas, the jab jab, the stickmen, the small bands going up and down the one-street town....
- I also liked Edwards’ nod to T & T Carnival in the costumes of the jab jabs whose cracking whips made the air electric during Jesus’ flaying under Pilate.
- Around the occasion, a colorful cast of Carnival characters grew up devils called Jab Jabs (from the French diable), human donkeys called burrokeets, bandits called Midnight Robbers, clowns called Pierrot Grenade, giants on stilts called Moko Jumbies.
Origin
French Creole, from French diable diable 'devil devil'.
- character set
- character sketch
- character sketching
- character state
- character string
- character structure
- character witness
- charactery
- charade
- charango
- charas
- charbroil
- charcoal
- charcoal biscuit
- charcoal burner
- charcoal filter
- charcoal gray
- charcoal grey
- Charcot, Jean-Martin
- charcuterie
- chard
- Chardonnay
- Chardonnay socialist
- charedization
- charentais