shock jock
shock jock noun: a deliberately offensive or provocative talk show host.
Noun
shock jock (plural shock jocks)
- A deliberately offensive or provocative talk show host.
- “To slam a movie about hate radio for fostering hate is like saying that a movie about the Ku Klux Klan will foster the Klan,” he says, adding that the death threats against Barry Champlain, “Talk Radio’s” shock jock, are not the imaginings of a feverish, Hollywood-inspired imagination.1989 January 6, Robert Koehler, “The Word on 'Talk Radio' : Eric Bogosian Finds Story in the 'Fringe Element' of the Media”, in Los Angeles Times
- “We always had shock jocks,” said Michael Harrison, publisher of the talk-radio trade magazine Talkers. “But then we had a shock president.”2021 February 10, Michael M. Grynbaum, Tiffany Hsu, Katie Robertson, Keith Collins, quoting Michael Harrison, “How Right-Wing Radio Stoked Anger Before the Capitol Siege”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Forms of shock jock
| plural | shock jocks |
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Origin of shock jock
From shock + jock(ey).
Questions about shock jock
- What does shock jock mean?
- Shock jock means a deliberately offensive or provocative talk show host.
- What part of speech is shock jock?
- Shock jock is a noun.
- What is the plural of shock jock?
- The plural of shock jock is shock jocks.
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