jock

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Miller: Perfect as a morning drive-time jock, which is something that (unless you're Howard Stern, apparently) translates horribly into television.

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  1. noun Sports A jockey.
  2. noun A disc jockey.
  3. noun An athletic supporter.
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  • Once she'd been forced to see him as more than a sports jock, a safe crush that would never play out, she'd run like crazy from the possibility of facing emotions more substantial than infatuation. —  Chapter 1
  • She looked like a jock, or jockette, and people equated jocks with stupidity, or at least a certain rah-rah thickness. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 02] - Charm City
  • The overweight ex-jock, the hard-drinking clubman, the successful peddler of oil-field equipment? —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 05 - May 1999
  • If you're a jock, then chances are most of your friends are jocks as well. —  John Chow dot Com
  • World hopped off my jock, I got 'em right back on it david brothers: Miller / Lee as a creative team is completely fascinating to me. —  4thletter!
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Short for jockey.
  2. Short for jockstrap.

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  1. Cf. jog and shock.
  2. jock, v.
 

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