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How to use jock in a sentence

30 example sentences · noun, verb

Jock means a common man. Example: “Geology is so mick - half the jocks are in it.”

Examples of jock by meaning

nounA jockey.

  • 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

nounA 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

More sentences with jock

  • Geology is so mick - half the jocks are in it.From the entry mick
  • Narita leans into his Ivy League pedigree as he fosters a nerdy shock jock impression.2023 February 12, Motoko Rich, Hikari Hida, “A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?”, in The…. From the entry shock jock
  • “We always had shock jocks,” said Michael Harrison, publisher of the talk-radio trade magazine Talkers.2021 February 10, Michael M. Grynbaum, Tiffany Hsu, Katie Robertson, Keith Collins, quoting Michael Harrison, “How Right-Wing Radio Stoked…. From the entry shock jock
  • The Heathers are all kilts, scrunchies, and shoulder pads, jostling alongside the letterman-jacketed homophobic jocks.2018 September 14, Sarah Carson, “Heathers the Musical: wildly funny and in deliciously bad taste”, in i, London, archived from the…. From the entry letterman-jacketed
  • She didn't have time to shower, let alone change from her jocks.2015 February 6, Æmilius, 925, CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry jocks
  • Jock beflirts Aelita who doesn't get indulged at all by the fuss he obviously makes.2015, Delilah Jay, A Liberal Temptation. From the entry beflirt
  • All I've got left is what I'm standing in: my jocks."2014, Lewis Philips, I Am the ONe. From the entry jocks
  • Who knew a jock could be captain of the math team?2011, Martina Manicastri, Climb into My Mind: A Book of Poems, Essays, and Short Stories, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry head over heels
  • But a dumb jock who's also a single-minded horn dog—that's funny.2009 September 7, May Seah, “Top 10 television ignoramuses. Duh!”, in channelnewsasia.com, retrieved 10 Jan 2010. From the entry other head
  • My steady regular Janko the teamsport jock is the prime example.2003, James C. Johnstone, Quickies 3: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire, page 87. From the entry teamsport
  • Carl Spackler: A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock."1980, Douglas Kenney, Harold Ramis, Brian Doyle-Murray, Caddyshack. From the entry looper
  • All a jock needs is some hep patter and a real gone image.1975, Garry Marshall et al., “Richie's Flip Side”, in Happy Days, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard). From the entry gone
  • Jock 1: hey headass. way to ditch us again.2018, Bianca Schramm, Suburban Utopia Unhinged, →ISBN, page 181. From the entry headass
  • But Bruce wasn't done baiting the jocks.2013, Jeffrey Bernhardt, The Indian: America's Waking Dream, Berkeley Radicals, War, Riots, Drugs and Revolution. From the entry fishtail
  • He fishtailed the car; it swerved and reversed direction, heading straight for the three jocks who were chasing them on foot.2013, Jeffrey Bernhardt, The Indian: America's Waking Dream, Berkeley Radicals, War, Riots, Drugs and Revolution. From the entry fishtail
  • Not to mention the young man that I was head over heels with was the jock at the school he attended.2012, Dressed up Garbage Can, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry head over heels
  • We've had our fill of dumb jocks.2009 September 7, May Seah, “Top 10 television ignoramuses. Duh!”, in channelnewsasia.com, retrieved 10 Jan 2010. From the entry other head
  • The coolest of these "empowereds" laugh with the shock jocks ogling the hotties and ragging on the fatties and the prudes.2003, Elle - Issue 220, page 188. From the entry empowered
  • Dad, I want to be a jock.1975, Garry Marshall et al., “Richie's Flip Side”, in Happy Days, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard). From the entry gone
  • A jock might be queer, but his performance of masculinity fits so comfortably within the cisheterosexual norms that he is assumed to be straight.2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 162. From the entry cisheterosexual
  • While our teacher conducts a declension drill we busily draw jock straps and pushup bras on the statuary in our Living Latin textbooks.2019, Michael Mitchell, Final Fire: A Memoir. From the entry semper ubi sub ubi
  • “Students here cover a spectrum,” muses a senior, including “preppy pop-collars, hardcore hippies, emo punk rockers, jocks, semi-goths, and Dungeons & Dragoners.”2008, Edward B. Fiske, Robert Logue, the Fiske Guide to Colleges staff, Fiske Guide to Colleges 2008, twenty-fourth edition, Naperville…. From the entry Dungeons & Dragoner
  • Whether it be the jock in high school that always called you fat, or the guy who picked on you and called you a twig.2007 February 24, Matt Weik, CSCS, “Successful Tips and Tricks For Contest Prep!”, in Bodybuilding.com, archived from the original on 16…. From the entry twig
  • When you add in the kinkier heteros—fetishists, jock sniffers, Jesus freaks, doll collectors, day traders, spankers and spankees—queers are the moral majority for sure.2006, Frederick Crews, Postmodern Pooh. From the entry spankee
  • They all pretend to be pro-education, but are really just baby-sitters (or childsitters, or teensitters), who artifically over-value jocks, and appease the rich brats.2002 February 19, Gus McNally, “John Stossel: Social Cruelity - Does high school never end?”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet)…. From the entry teensitter
  • When it's too warm for a hat, try an ear jock (technically, ear band), preferably one made of itchless fiber like Turtle Fur.1998, Jules Older, Cross-Country Skiing for Everyone, page 33. From the entry itchless
  • The "fratters” are known to hang out at the more expensive Parlor Bar, while the jocks are said to prefer the Diamond Horseshoe.1989, Yale Daily News, The Insider's Guide to the Colleges (page 785). From the entry fratter
  • Noble specimen he with the Greekesque bootees, tiger skin jock, and plastered all over with swellings that look like a bad case of boils.1914, Young Men - Volume 40, page 27. From the entry Greekesque

Meaning of jock

  1. noun A common man.
  2. noun A Scotsman.
  3. noun A jockey.

Full definition of jock

Questions about jock in a sentence

How do you use jock in a sentence?
Jock is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Geology is so mick - half the jocks are in it.”
What is a short sentence with jock?
“But Bruce wasn't done baiting the jocks.”
What does jock mean?
Jock means a common man.

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