Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) a man or woman.

1902		T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 112: The jobbie who yells fake at every fight.
1915		T.A. Dorgan Indoor Sports 22 Feb. [synd. cartoon] Indoor Sports. Listening to a jobbie with a wrist watch recite Jim Bludsoe.
1916		Day Book (Chicago) 21 Oct. 17/1: He’s the jobbie that spouts how valuable he is to the firm.
1923		H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 121: Suppose you sock ’at jobbie on the head and break a bone in your hand?
1931		R.E. Howard ‘Circus Fists’ Action Stories Dec. 🌐 ‘All I got to do is flatten jobbies?’ I said, and he said it was.
1938		D. Runyon ‘Baseball Hattie’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 647: No smarter jobbie ever breathes than Haystack when he is out there pitching.
1964		J. Charyn Once upon a Droshky 118: If you want something special, I can locate a jobby with an extra tit! High class. All the rabbis wait on line for her!

2. (US, also jobby) a thing.

1942		W. Winchell 17 May [synd. col.] ‘This Gun for Hire’ is a jobbie dealing with intrigue and Jap trickery.
1954		K. Vonnegut ‘The Powder-Blue Dragon’ in Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) 155: He looked out over the parking lot. ‘Oho, I see. The little blue jobbie.’.
1969		D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 167: Horse! Dump and bail out! You have no chance in that jobby.
1974		D. Mamet Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1994) 94: And will you look at the chick in the two piece wet-look jobbie?
1984		A. Sayle Train to Hell 19: One of those journals-of-an-international-rail-journey jobbies.
1998		K. Sampson Awaydays 66: [of a car] Not the snazzy soft-top Vitesse model, sadly, but a well-preserved late Sixties jobbie which is not much less eye-catching.
2004		P. Howard PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 239: They’re those big focking hotdog jobbies.
2015		S. King Finders Keepers (2016) 245: He picks up a Zappit e-reader [...] ‘These jobbies have games on ’em’.

3. a job.

2001

K. Sampson Outlaws (ms.) 167: I am not thinking about our own little jobbie at all.