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In professional wrestling slang, a job is a losing performance in a wrestling match.[1] It is derived from the euphemism "doing one's job", which was employed to protect information related to kayfabe from being revealed. The term can be used a number of ways. When a wrestler is booked to lose a match, it is described as "a job". The act itself is described with the verb jobbing, while the act of booking (rather than being booked) to job is called jobbing out. To lose a match fairly (meaning without any kayfabe rules being broken) is to job cleanly.[2] Wrestlers who routinely (or exclusively) lose matches are known as jobbers or "dummy wrestlers". A wrestler skilled at enhancing the matches they lose, as opposed to a jobber, is called a carpenter.[3] In the post-kayfabe era the term has taken on a negative connotation, leading to the use of the neutral term enhancement talent.[4]
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- ^ "Wrestling Dictionary". Wrestling Fortitude. Archived from the original on 2007-12-12. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ "Carpenters: Why They were Essential to Wrestling and Why They are So Needed Today", by Harry Grover, Pro Wrestling Historical Society Archived June 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Enhancement Era: The Return of the WWE jobber". Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Online. August 2016. Retrieved 2017-03-27.