jock

plural jocks

1. archaicslangA common man.
2. IrelandUKderogatoryslangA Scotsman.

plural jocks

1. informalA jockey.

   "You've heard of him?" "No." "Why, young fellah, where have you lived? Sir John Ballinger is the best gentleman jock in the north country."

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

2. datedrareslangThe penis.
3. An athletic supporter worn by men to support the genitals especially during sports.

   Synonyms: jockstrap

4. USslangA young male athlete, typically tall and aged 16–23.
5. USderogatoryslangAn enthusiastic sports fan, especially one with few other interests, often stereotyped as slow-witted person of large size and great physical strength.

   'Cause all jocks ever think about is sports, all we ever think about is sex.

   1984, Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai (screenplay), Revenge of the Nerds (motion picture), spoken by Lewis (Robert Carradine)

6. slangA disc jockey.

   Got a job doin' radio promo / And none of the jocks can even tell I'm a homo

   1979 March 3, “Bobby Brown (Goes Down)”, performed by Frank Zappa

   2 more examples

   There was never a single listener protest or objection — the entire opposition to the content of the program came from a few jocks within the station.

   1977 April 16, "Hartford Radio Show Axed", in Gay Community News, page 6, quoting Eric Gordon

   As a teenager, I laid down the sword and decided I wanted to be a disc jockey. […] I'd sit outside the studio and watch with envy and admiration as the jocks performed in the small room on the other side of the soundproof window […]

   2010, Stephen B. McSwain, The Enoch Factor: The Sacred Art of Knowing God, page 95

7. USdatedin compoundsslangcomputingA specialist computer programmer.

   systems jock

   1 more example

   compiler jock

present singular third person jocks · participle present jocking · participle past jocked · past jocked

1. slangTo masturbate.

   Synonyms: jack off, jerk off, wank, wank off

2. slangTo humiliate.

   Synonyms: punk

3. slangTo steal.

   Synonyms: gank

1. YorkshiredialectaluncountableFood; meals.

   Hah's a growing lad to thrive baht jock?

   1884, William Cudworth (of Bradford), Yorkshire Dialect and Character Sketches, page 15

   1 more example

   Thear's boan-idle nowbles, baht hahses an' lands, 'at al walk on a carpeted path, an' nivver do nowt wi' ther lily-white hands bud lift uther fowk's jock to ther maath.

   1881, Ben Preston, Dialect and Other Poems, page 19

1. A nickname.

   1 more example

   - - - If you want a Scotch name why don't you call him Jock?" Macgregor looked disgusted. "Because Jock is not a name, but a diminutive, as everybody knows well. It is the diminutive of John. And John is not a Scots name. The Scots form of that name is Ian. If you want to call him Ian Fetch, I shall say no more.

   1975, Robertson Davies, World of Wonders, →ISBN, page 736

2. A given name.
3. A surname.

plural Jocks

1. UKslangAlternative letter-case form of jock