Anybody else think it’s dumb that Jabba is constantly referred to as “Jabba the Hutt” when Hutt is just the species he is? When I was a little kid, I thought “Hutt” must mean “mob boss” or something.
That probably is what “Hutt” originally meant, but as far as retcons go you could always argue that he’s the Hutt crime lord. At least in the EU he was the most powerful of all the Hutts.