jockey

plural jockeys

1. One who rides racehorses competitively.
2. That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire
3. in compoundsAn operator of some machinery or apparatus.
4. datedA dealer in horses; a horse trader.

   And the crime for which Nuncomar was about to die was regarded by them in much the same light in which the selling of an unsound horse, for a sound price, is regarded by a Yorkshire jockey.

   1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings

5. datedA cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
6. UKslangcrimeA prostitute's client.

   Synonyms: prostitute's client

7. IrelandslangcrimeA rapist.

present singular third person jockeys · participle present jockeying · participle past jockeyed · past jockeyed

1. To ride (a horse) in a race.
2. To jostle by riding against.

   I love jockeying that motorcycle through heavy traffic.

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   They were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.

3. To maneuver (something) by skill; especially, to do so for one's advantage.

   They're all jockeying for promotion.

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   This particularly obtains in all Parliamentary affairs. Whether the business in hand be to get a man in, or get a man out, or get a man over, or promote a railway, or jockey a railway, or what else, nothing is understood to be so effectual as scouring nowhere in a violent hurry—in short, as taking cabs and going about.

   1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC

4. To cheat or trick.

   I've been jockeyed into doing work for which I get no credit.