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jockocratic

jockocratic adjective: characterized by an excessive veneration of sport and athletes.

Adjective

jockocratic (comparative more jockocratic, superlative most jockocratic)

  1. Characterized by an excessive veneration of sport and athletes.
    • Just when I'm asking myself if it's worth it to rock the boat and wondering if I should compromise, something will happen to keep me going. Like one year I got an award from a women's group for, "exposing the jockocratic values of society."1984, Jim Bouton, Ball Four Plus Ball, page 410
    • Indeed, Virginia Tech is in no way unique: it embodies, as Tim Luke explains in this volume, a heritage of violence: in the coercive coherence of the community of Hokie Nation, the nexus of campus and regional cultures with the jockocratic dominance of football (what Luke called "gridiron...2008, Ben Agger, Timothy W. Luke, There is a Gunman on Campus: Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech

Forms of jockocratic

comparativemore jockocratic
superlativemost jockocratic

Origin of jockocratic

From jock + -o- + -cratic.

Questions about jockocratic

What does jockocratic mean?
Jockocratic means characterized by an excessive veneration of sport and athletes.
What part of speech is jockocratic?
Jockocratic is an adjective.

Words near jockocratic in the dictionary

  1. Jockneys
  2. jocko
  3. jockocracies
  4. jockocracy
  5. jockocrat
  6. jockocratic
  7. jockocrats
  8. jockoes
  9. jockos
  10. jocks
  11. jocks off

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