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jock

UK/ˈd͡ʒɒk/US/ˈd͡ʒɑk/

jock noun: a common man.

Noun (1)

jock (plural jocks)

  1. (archaic, slang) A common man.
  2. (Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang) A Scotsman.

Noun (2)

jock (plural jocks)

  1. (informal) A 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. (dated, rare, slang) The penis.
  3. An athletic supporter worn by men to support the genitals especially during sports.
    Synonyms:
    jockstrap
  4. (US, slang) A young male athlete, typically tall and aged 16–23.
  5. (US, derogatory, slang) An 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. (slang) A disc jockey.
    • 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. (US, dated, in-compounds, slang) A specialist computer programmer.
    • compiler jock
    • systems jock

Verb

jock (third-person singular simple present jocks, present participle jocking, simple past and past participle jocked)

  1. (slang) To masturbate.
  2. (slang) To humiliate.
    Synonyms:
    punk
  3. (slang) To steal.
    Synonyms:
    gank

Noun (3)

jock (uncountable)

  1. (Yorkshire, dialectal) Food; meals.
    • 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
    • Hah's a growing lad to thrive baht jock?1884, William Cudworth (of Bradford), Yorkshire Dialect and Character Sketches, page 15

Proper noun capitalized: Jock

Jock

  1. A nickname.
    • - - - 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...1975, Robertson Davies, World of Wonders, →ISBN, page 736
  2. A given name.
  3. A surname.

Noun (4) capitalized: Jock

Jock (plural Jocks)

  1. (UK, slang) Alternative letter-case form of jock

jock meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

jock in Hindi

जॉक, जोक

jock in Tamil

ஜோக்

jock in Malayalam

ജോക്ക്

jock in Kannada

ಜೋಕ್
More languagesFewer languages
jock in Punjabi
ਜੌਕ, ਜੌਕ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
jock in Gujarati
જોક, જૉક

Examples of jock in a sentence

  • Geology is so mick - half the jocks are in it.
  • Narita leans into his Ivy League pedigree as he fosters a nerdy shock jock impression.
  • “We always had shock jocks,” said Michael Harrison, publisher of the talk-radio trade magazine Talkers.

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Synonyms of jock

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Forms of jock

Noun
pluraljocks
pluralJocks
Verb
third-person singular presentjocks
present participlejocking
past participlejocked
pastjocked

Plural of jock: jocks

Origin of jock

English jock From Jock, a Scottish hypocoristic form of John (compare Jack).

The computer slang meanings are derived from jockey. The athletic slang meanings in turn date from the mid-20th century and are simple abbreviations of jockstrap.

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Phrases with jock

Words that rhyme with jock

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Questions about jock

What does jock mean?
Jock means a common man.
What is jock in Hindi?
Jock in Hindi is जॉक, जोक. See Jock meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is jock?
Jock can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce jock?
Jock is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɒk/ (UK).
What is the plural of jock?
The plural of jock is jocks.

Words near jock in the dictionary

  1. Jochum
  2. Jochums
  3. Jocism
  4. Jocist
  5. Jocists
  6. jock
  7. jock itch
  8. jock off
  9. jock rot
  10. jock sniffer
  11. jock sniffers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jock (page history and authors); Jock (page history and authors); jock (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jock (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jock (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jock (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jock (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jock (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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