jockey
UK/ˈd͡ʒɒki/US/ˈd͡ʒɑki/
jockey noun: one who rides racehorses competitively.
Noun
jockey (plural jockeys)
- One who rides racehorses competitively.
- That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire
- An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
- A 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
- A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
- A prostitute's client.
- Synonyms:
- prostitute's client
- A rapist.
Verb
jockey (third-person singular simple present jockeys, present participle jockeying, simple past and past participle jockeyed)
- To ride (a horse) in a race.
- To jostle by riding against.
- They were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.
- I love jockeying that motorcycle through heavy traffic.
- To maneuver (something) by skill; especially, to do so for one's advantage.
- They're all jockeying for promotion.
- 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...1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC
- To cheat or trick.
- I've been jockeyed into doing work for which I get no credit.
jockey meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
jockey in Tamil
- பந்தயக் குதிரை ஓட்டுபவர்
jockey in Marathi
- one who rides racehorses competitively
- जॉकी jŏkī
jockey in Urdu
- چابک سوار, پیشہ ور گھڑ سوار, دھوکا دینا, فریب دینا, گھوڑا دوڑانا, ساز باز کرنا
jockey in Bengali
- ঘোড়দৌড়ের পেশাদার ঘোড়সওয়ার, ইংল্যান্ডে ঘোড়দৌড় নিয়ন্ত্রণকারী সমিতি, প্রতারণা করা, সুবিধা
More languagesFewer languages
- jockey in Malayalam
- പന്തയക്കുതിര, സവാരിക്കാരൻ
- jockey in Kannada
- ಕುದುರೆ ಸವಾರ, ಮೋಸಮಾಡು, ತಿಂದುಹಾಕು
- jockey in Tagalog
- hinete
- jockey in Indonesian
- joki
- jockey in Thai
- นักขี่ม้าแข่ง nák-kìi-máa-kɛ̀ɛng
Examples of jockey in a sentence
- On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.
- Before he signed off the radio station for the night, the disc jockey played the National Anthem.
- As they came down the home straight, the jockey gave his horse Larry Dooley.
Synonyms of jockey
- prostitute's client
Forms of jockey
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | jockeys |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | jockeys |
| present participle | jockeying |
| past participle | jockeyed |
| past | jockeyed |
Origin of jockey
The word is by origin a diminutive of jock, the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name John, which is also used generically for "boy" or "fellow" (compare Jack, Dick), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's Richard III. v. 3, 304. Equivalent to jock + -ey. In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp", whence the verb to jockey, "to outwit" or "to do" a person out of something. The current meaning of a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670.
Words formed from jockey
- bench jockey
- bet the jockey, not the horse
- bike jockey strap
- booze jockey
- broadcast jockey
- camel jockey
- camel-jockey
- car jockey
- chicken jockey
- desk jockey
- disc jockey
- disk jockey
- gas jockey
- gin jockey
- Horse and Jockey
- horse-jockey
- jet jockey
- jock
- jockette
- jockey box
- jockey briefs
- jockeydom
- jockeyism
- jockeyless
- jockeylike
- jockey pants
- jockey pump
- jockeyship
- jockey shorts
- jockey squat
- jockey strap
- jockey valve
- jump jockey
- knob jockey
- knob-jockey
- lawn jockey
- light jockey
- nob jockey
- outjockey
- plough jockey
- plow jockey
- pump jockey
- radio jockey
- robot jockey
- sausage jockey
- slot jockey
- suicide jockey
- swab jockey
- talk jockey
- throttle jockey
- video jockey
- yard jockey
- jockey for position
- jockeying
Phrases with jockey
Words that rhyme with jockey
Questions about jockey
- What does jockey mean?
- Jockey means one who rides racehorses competitively.
- What is jockey in Tamil?
- Jockey in Tamil is பந்தயக் குதிரை ஓட்டுபவர். See Jockey meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is jockey?
- Jockey can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce jockey?
- Jockey is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɒki/ (UK).
- What is the plural of jockey?
- The plural of jockey is jockeys.
Words near jockey in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: jockey (page history and authors); jockey (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jockey (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jockey (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jockey (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jockey (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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