Hate the word "jab" in the media.

Guess they are trying not to use the word "prick" any more !! ( tries to hide schoolgirl smirk and giggles at using a naughty word!!)????????

Preferable to "a shot" I misunderstood this at some stables recently and thought some poor horse was about to meet its maker!

I don't hate it but I choose not to use it. That's all you seem to hear on TV or radio.

A slang word I do hate is "kids" .

Call it what you like - here’s my arm!

"Jab" seems to be mostly a British term. Here in America, we usually call it a "shot."

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NotSpaghetti

Not sure if this is the right place for this but just had to protest at the regular use of the word "jab" in relation to the Covid-19 vaccines.

I hate the phrases "get the jab", "roll out the jab" and others. When combined with "ramp up" I just want to scream.

Am I the only one who feels like this?

No when I hear the terms I feel like jabbing someone in the ribs and screaming "Stop it" or I'll ramp up the volume next time I scream in your ear. Hopefully I won't hear it again and no one will get the jab and I can roll out the barrel and not the jab. If you didn't laugh you'd scream.

We used to have ”shots” when we went overseas. What happened to them? Did they morph into “jabs”?

Never even noticed it but our lot here haven’t got it organised yet. Better than prick which has all sorts of connotations.

Hate that “sharp,scratch”:-hardly! Jab is far more accurate , and Imwish they’d stop showing the actual ‘jab’ on the tv.Its enough to,give anyone needle phobia.

I believe someone earlier,( a nurse?), said you can call it what you like but it is still sticking a needle in someone's arm.
Actually no, it is finding the correct place and inserting the needle carefully and with precision. Why demean professional skills?

‘Jab’ is a lot easier than ‘vaccination’ to fit into a headline, or into an article that needs to fit a certain space.

Cornishpatsy I've complained to the BBC on more than one occasion, they are disappointing in so many ways.

I don't care what it's called . Just waiting for our "over 70 s" letter.
However, I am a bit bored with endless news showing people having needles stuck into their arms.

well i've had mine today so quite like the word!

Have a bottle of beer after the jab, LauraNorder!
Alcohol-free of course (alcohol not recommended after vaccination)

Inoculation works better than jab if you’re a ventriloquist

Jag here in Scotland ???????.

Happy with jab-the sooner the better, but if a vaccination will move me up the list I’m willing to say that.

The word 'jab' is mildly annoying yes, but not nearly as annoying to me as the term 'my bad' which is in common use now and means 'my mistake.'

It is actually American basketball slang and some quite old members of staff where I work use it, to my irritation.

Interesting that the use of jab originates in U.S. from criminal slang for the illicit use of drugs. The second example in the OED relates to injecting a bullock.

1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 48 Jab, current amongst morphine and cocaine fiends. A hypodermic injection.
1959 Punch 13 May 658/3 Receiving the hypodermic jab intended for the bullock.

Both suggest, perhaps, a less gentle application of the needle than the word injecton.

It is unbearable to me too that we are dumbing down and using childish euphemisms when discussing an important process. Just say inoculation - how difficult can that be.

Tweedle24 ?

I am going to give an armful on Monday and will take note of what she (or he) says!

Castillemon I divorced the little prick followed by a dull ache

When I was a girl, a "Jag" was a fancy car that my cousin aspired to.