jock

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noun (1)

1
: athlete sense 1
especially : a school or college athlete
2
: a person devoted to a single pursuit or interest
computer jocks
3
4
: pilot
especially : a fighter pilot

jock

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noun (2)

Examples of jock in a Sentence

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Noun
The Grammy winner was spotted cheering enthusiastically for the home team alongside the jock’s mother, Donna Kelce. Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023 In high schools across the country, jocks and theater kids too often live in distinct social strata. Gwydion Suilebhan, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024 To many of these constituents, a ballpark represents a final nail in the coffin — capital squashing art, the jocks exiling the freaks. David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2024 Just as faithfully, Clooney acknowledges how little politics registered to these jocks. Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023 The nerd is not the opposite of the jock but a different iteration of the same logic. Ben Tarnoff, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023 Here, the jock bully manipulates a weak-willed competitor into finally taking the umbrella with a false promise, dooming 90% of his entire line to failure. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023 The growing friendship between the bookish student and the jock endeared viewers, but Aiken and Studdard also came from similar backgrounds, growing up in the South and singing in church. Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023 Priscilla’s Elvis is an insecure jock, a rudderless pretty boy with more charisma than talent who prefers the company of pistol-toting sycophants to anyone else. Andrew Marzoni, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

Noun (1)

jockstrap

First Known Use

Noun (1)

1922, in the meaning defined at sense 3

Noun (2)

1826, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of jock was in 1826

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“Jock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jock. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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