Word.ws English Dictionary

jocks

jocks is the plural of jock.

Noun (1)

jocks pl (plural only)

  1. (Australia, plural, plural-only, slang) Male briefs.
    • "My name's Bill. I'm from Western Australia. I was sleeping in my panel van across the creek in the park, and I guess the flood waters picked up the van. I still can't believe what happened, but at least I'm still alive. All I've got left is what I'm standing in: my jocks."2014, Lewis Philips, I Am the ONe
    • "Please, Ryan. I don't want to come downstairs every morning and find you lounging around in your jocks on my couch. It's too ... studenty."2015, Marian Keyes, The Woman Who Saved My Life: A Novel
  2. (Ireland, plural, plural-only, slang) Underwear.
    • She didn't have time to shower, let alone change from her jocks. She pulls her hair backward in a knot.2015 February 6, Æmilius, 925, CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 11
    • [Nicole O'Connor:] It's not blowing the jocks off me, but it's like... it's like gently kind of puffing the jocks off me.
    • [Cameraman:] Jocks is Irish slang for underwear.2025 November 7, The TRY Channel, "Irish People Try Calzones"

Meaning of jock

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.

See all 16 meanings of jock

Noun (2) capitalized: Jocks

Jocks

  1. (plural) plural of Jock

Origin of jocks

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From jockey shorts.

Phrases with jocks

Words that rhyme with jocks

23 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about jocks

What does jocks mean?
Jocks means male briefs.
What is jocks the plural of?
Jocks is the plural of jock.
What part of speech is jocks?
Jocks is a noun.

Words near jocks in the dictionary

  1. jockocrat
  2. jockocratic
  3. jockocrats
  4. jockoes
  5. jockos
  6. jocks
  7. jocks off
  8. jockstrap
  9. jockstrappery
  10. jockstraps
  11. jockteleg

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jocks (page history and authors); Jocks (page history and authors); jock (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-jocks.ogg.

Cite this entry: “jocks.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/jocks. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.