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  • And the folks at Mount Vernon call the Jocko story "apocryphal."

    Should We Learn to Love Lawn Jockeys? 2006

  • At my table was a frowning, buzz-cut retired air force corpsman who had recently been elected to the city council and who wanted to make sure the library computers weren't being used to access porn; a junior high school student with razor-wire braces who won a computer science contest by using his laptop to graph local marijuana prices; the furtive founder of a local keyboard manufacturing company that was in the process of moving to Belize; and the manager of one especially cutting-edge firm called Jocko's Soft Tacos: "We just got a new computer for our drive-thru window that has cut in half the number of Mexi-Bobs that we throw away."

    Land of the Blind Walter, Jess, 1969- 2003

  • No one had called him "Jocko" since that day -- weeks before -- when he had run away from his master, the organ-grinder, in the village.

    The Tale of Major Monkey Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

  • "Jocko," said the son of sunny Italy, on corner two, "maka da bow, taka da mon!"

    Owen Clancy's Happy Trail or, The Motor Wizard in California Burt L. Standish 1905

  • Their local name for the Chimpanzee is _Enché-eko_, as near as it can be Anglicized, from which the common term 'Jocko' probably conies.

    A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

  • Even as faith without works is dead, being alone, so professions of affection without exemplification would be simply worth "Jocko," and that worthless creature, according to the mariner, was good for "nix."

    Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887

  • "Jocko," and, in the latter shape, was spread all over the world, in consequence of the extensive popularity of Buffon's works.

    Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • "Jocko," and, in the latter shape, was spread all over the world, in consequence of the extensive popularity of Buffon's works.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Chimpanzee is 'Enche-eko', as near as it can be Anglicized, from which the common term 'Jocko' probably comes.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Chimpanzee is 'Enche-eko', as near as it can be Anglicized, from which the common term 'Jocko' probably comes.

    Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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