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• On the Flat, an apprentice jockey starts with an allowance of 7 lb.From the entry allowance
• Before he signed off the radio station for the night, the disc jockey played the National Anthem.From the entry sign off
• As they came down the home straight, the jockey gave his horse Larry Dooley.From the entry Larry Dooley
• He asked the disk jockey to amp it up.From the entry amp
• The disc jockey played brilliant music at the party.From the entry disc jockey
• When I took part in a horse race, my girlfriend unsupportively placed a bet on one of the other jockeys.From the entry unsupportively
• Throughout the first turn is where the jockey rates the horse if the need arises.2019, Jay Cronley, Good Vibes. From the entry rate
• LA's most popular “race music” radio shows featured a white disc jockey, Hunter Hancock, from Texas.2015, Deena Weinstein, Rock'n America: A Social and Cultural History, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry race music
• Before the disc jockey, stations were compelled to acquire a flunky: the lowly pancake turner.2009, Mark Coleman, Playback. From the entry pancake turner
• With a discaire, or disc jockey, spinning jazz records all night long, the main attraction was dancing.2007, “Why Disco Happened”, in Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into Music (Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader), e-book edition, Ashland…. From the entry discaire
• Stripped to his jockey briefs, he felt a coolness he had so wanted earlier.1988, Leoncio P. Deriada, Night Mares: And Other Stories of Fantasy and Horror, page 117. From the entry jockey briefs
• Tohoku Electronic Industrial (Japan) has developed a robot jockey to help train horses.1988, Predicasts, inc, Predicasts Technology Update, volume 44, numbers 27-52, Predicasts, page 12. From the entry robot jockey
• They'll break from the gate in full tack with jockeys riding catchweight in silks.1976 December 3, “Oldtimers race is well received”, in El Paso Herald-Post. From the entry catchweight
• The majority group form the audience for the disc jockeys, Hit Parade, etc.1957, Bernard Rosenberg, David Manning White, “Divertissement”, in Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America, Glencoe, Ill.: The Free…. From the entry berater
• The virtual community ends up expanding far beyond the broadcast jockey, and envelops all those logged on at the same time.2020, Eve Turow-Paul, Hungry: Avocado Toast, Instagram Influencers, and Our Search for Connection and Meaning. From the entry broadcast jockey
• We sat in our jockey shorts and t-shirts drinking whiskey.2018, C. Dale Young, The Affliction, page 14. From the entry jockey shorts
• For Walter Blum, as well as for many others, the hotbox is the most unpleasant part of being a jockey.· 2017, Jack Engelhard, The Horsemen: Inside Thoroughbred Racing As Never Told Before, page 36. From the entry hotbox
• But at Derby time, he was still the jockey of choice, in demand for many of the major trainers.2016, Bill Christine, “Put the Schadenfreude on Hold”, in Bill Hartack: The Bittersweet Life of a Hall of Fame Jockey, Jefferson, N.C.…. From the entry turn turtle
• Its parallelogram action and double jockey wheels are how all rear mechanisms (or rear mechs for short) operate today.2015, Chris Boardman, The Biography of the Modern Bike: The Ultimate History of Bike Design, Hachette, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry mech
• The Swiss company K-Team developed the robot jockey Kamal, which has taken over the work of child jockeys ever since.2015 August 28, Lamber Royakkers, Rinie van Est, “Automation from Love to War”, in Just Ordinary Robots: Automation from Love to War…. From the entry robot jockey
• Those old bush jockeys, they were men not boys.2013, John Maynard, “Reg ‘Punter’ Hart”, in Aborigines and the ‘Sport of Kings’: Indigenous Jockeys in Australian Racing History, 3rd…. From the entry learn the ropes
• Did you ever try to dance while the disc jockey tried to beat mix for the first time?2013, Stacy Zemon, The DJ Sales and Marketing Handbook, page xiv. From the entry beat mix
• The stewards ordered Des Coleman, the senior hoop (jockey) present, to ride and he got the horse home in a photo-finish.2011, James Morton, Susanna Lobez, Kings of Stings: The Greatest Swindles from Down Under. From the entry hoop
• I’d think with those green eyes you'd be peeling the chicks off your jockeys before they peeled your jockeys off you!"2010, Angelo J. Lagana III, Me Island, page 368. From the entry jockeys
• "Jockeys waste and drivers don't and maybe the breed (standardbred) might be a bit more conducive to the conditions."2009 January 30, Tim Habel, Matt Stewart, “Heat on VRC to delay Flemington meeting”, in Herald Sun. From the entry standardbred
• Last year's Caulfield Cup placegetter is rated a $6 chance and will be ridden by champion Irish jockey Michael Kinane.2009 February 13, Tim Habel, “Time to put best foot forward”, in Herald Sun. From the entry placegetter
• Through the magazine and blanket distribution, the headset sales and overhead baggage jockeying, the seat next to mine remained empty.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.67-68. From the entry jockeying
• The disc jockey, Hernan Brizuela, 33, was playing sets, or tandas, of Argentine tangos: fast, medium, then slow.2007 August 25, Glenn Collins, “Tangoing Cheek to Cheek for 3 Minutes in the Park”, in New York Times. From the entry tanda
• "One afternoon I'd been shopping for underwear," he wrote, "and had bought at least three dozen pairs of jockey briefs.2001, Ben Fong-Torres, The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio, page 139. From the entry jockey briefs
• Back in his stateroom, sitting in his black jockey shorts, Scotty once again felt the exhaustion creep back into his body.2000, Charles Edward Gibb, Murder on the Cocktail Circuit, page 194. From the entry jockey shorts
• No sooner had President Washington been sworn in, wearing mousy, egalitarian brown broadcloth, than the sharp-elbowed jockeying for social status began.1977 October 24, Michael and Ariane Batterberry, “Party Politics”, in New York, page 81. From the entry sharp-elbowed
• He knows all the jockeys and trainers and everything.1930, Lennie Lower, Here's Luck, page 59. From the entry dinkum oil
• You look real jockey — thats' the dinkum.1917, Ralph Albert Parlette, The Lyceum magazine, volume 27, page 20. From the entry dinkum
• Following the Derby, we get a morning-suited broadcaster holding his hat as he rushes up to the successful jockey still astride his horse.2012 July 10, Edward Thomas, “Tennis is too expensive for youngsters today”, in The Independent, number 8034, page 18. From the entry morning-suited
• It was like that all day: jockeys, trainers, and assorted silvertails all said hello, as did lurkmen and urgers, bookie's runners, and loiterers.2011, Peter Doyle, The Devil's Jump, page 166. From the entry lurkman
• Mills appeared first, performing with a hype man (someone who exorts the crowd and sings along with key lines) and a disk jockey.2004 August 9, The New Yorker, page 100. From the entry hype man

Meaning of jockey

1. noun One who rides racehorses competitively.
2. noun That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire.
3. noun An operator of some machinery or apparatus.

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How do you use jockey in a sentence?

Jockey is used as a noun and verb. For example: “They were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.”

What is a short sentence with jockey?

“They're all jockeying for promotion.”

What does jockey mean?

Jockey means one who rides racehorses competitively.