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jock
noun- an athlete, especially a student athlete US, 1958
Originally referred to a man’s genitals, leading to “jock strap” as an athletic support, leading to a clipped “jock” for the support, leading to application to the man wearing the support. Usually, but not always, suggestive of a certain mindlessness. - Despite its current appellation as the “Jock” House, Winthrop remains one of the most versatile yet homogeneous houses at Harvard. — Harvard Crimson, 22 March 1957
- Jocks, as everyone who ever came within shouting distance of a campus knows, are the college athletes. — Frederick Kohner, The Affairs of Gidget, p. 52, 1963
- — American Speech, p. 194, October 1965: “Notes on campus vocabulary, 1964”
- As with the demonstrations against Marine campus recruiting in the spring of ‘67, threats of violence from the right will bring hundreds of the usually moderate to the SDS ranks just to align themselves against jock violence. — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 27, 1968
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 145, 1968
- At sudent sit-ins, it is the “jocks” who try to toss the anarchists out. — Richard Neville, Play Power, p. 274, 1970
- — Multicultural Management Program Fellows, Dictionary of Cautionary Words and Phrases, 1989
- I guess you could call a tennis player a jock. I think they do wear them. At least the guys do. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 210, 1993
- a jockey UK, 1826
- She’s hanging around the track every day. I’m interested, professionally. I find out she’s some jock’s regular, she’s living with the shrimp. — Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, p. 31, 1958
- He was a senior jock who had ridden in all parts on the globe. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 48, 1969
- a disc jockey US, 1947
- After the Battle of Bermuda, I prepared a resume that painted me as a jock of all trades. — Cousin Bruce Morrow, Cousin Brucie, p. 57, 1987
- [H]uge underground support from a wide variety of jocks[.] — Ministry, p. 24, October 2002
- a navy fighter pilot US, 1959
- As the chopper lifted off, the two figures on the ground grew smaller and smaller–the helicopter jock from Little Rock keeping vigil over a fellow soldier, a Vietnamese peasant. — Elaine Shepard, The Doom Pussy, p. 13, 1967
- — American Speech, p. 123, Summer 1986: “The language of Naval fighter pilots”
- Once there was an F-4 jock by the name of Heinz E. Coordes. — Joseph Tuso, Singing the Vietnam Blues, p. 28, 1990: The Ballad of Heinz E. Coordes
- the penis; the male genitals UK, 1790
- The ugly big-tit broad would stand there [in the dream] buck naked with a jock three times the size of my own. — Iceberg Silm (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 114, 1969
- [O]nce club beats and mediocre lyrics become the fashionable norm it seems everyone, your magazine included, is on the rappers’ jocks. — Hip-Hop Connection, p. 9, July 2002
- an athletic support US
An abbreviation of “jock strap”. - Like the baseball players that they’re always catching on the on-deck circle, got their hands down in their jocks, moving their balls around. — George V. Higgins, Penance for Jerry Kennedy, p. 31, 1985
- a computer programmer who enumerates all possible combinations to find the one that solves the problem US
- — Guy L. Steele et al., The Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 85, 1983
- a Scot UK, 1788
Originally armed services’ use, then widespread; from the Scottish variant of proper name John. - Bloody nutters. All them Jocks are nutters. — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 166, 1984
- POLICEMAN: On your way, Jock. Before you get into trouble. NESBITT: Oh, it’s Jock noo is it? Wee bit of friendly racism, eh? — Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, 1988
- It was a Jock that was the making of us. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 7, 2001
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