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▪ I. jock2|dʒɒk|
Colloq. abbrev. of jockey (senses 5 a and c).
1826Sporting Mag. XVIII. 385 A neat horseman, and quite at the top of the tree amongst Northern jocks. 1856H. H. Dixon Post & Paddock xii. 211 Many clever young jocks..have ridden as many races by the time they are twenty. 1894J. K. Fowler Recoll. Old Country Life xv. 176, I don't think he performed as a gentleman jock over that celebrated course. 1952in Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 294/1 Already the jukes and jocks are dinning our ears with Christmas songs. 1972Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 9 Jan. 14/4 Jocks..are pretty much a thing of the past.
▪ II. jock3 coarse slang.|dʒɒk|
[Origin unknown; perh. f. an old slang word jockum, -am penis (Farmer & Henley).]
The genitals of a man (or † of a woman). So † jock-gagger, a man living upon the earnings of a prostitute (Obs.).
a1790H. T. Potter New Dict. Cant & Flash (1795) 36 Jock, private parts of a man or woman. 1809G. Andrewes Dict. Slang & Cant, Jock-gagger, a sort of fellows who live on the prostitution of their wives, &c. 1846Swell's Night Guide 123/1 Jock, man's privates. 1960J. Cross Backward Sex iii. 73 Sprigs clattering on the floor, knees, jocks, backsides and shouting as everybody dressed. 1966‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 56 Jocks, testicles. 1972Dict. Contemp. & Colloq. Usage (Eng.-Lang. Inst. Amer.) 17/1 Jock,..vulgar, the penis.
▪ III. jock4 dial. and slang.|dʒɒk|
[Origin unknown.]
Food. (See also E.D.D.)
1879Yorkshireman's Comic Ann. 33 Monny a shift he wor put to to get jock eniff. 1881B. Preston Dial. & Other Poems 3 An' bumps 'em dahn i' t'corner chair, An' gloars reyt hard at t'jock. 1966H. Sheppard Dict. Railway Slang (ed. 2) 7 Jock, food. 1974P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry vi. 59 Food becomes..jock.., and contrasts oddly with officialese.
▪ IV. jock5 N. Amer. slang.|dʒɒk|
1. Abbrev. of jock-strap 1.
1952B. Malamud Natural (1963) 68 He located his jock, with two red apples in it, swinging from a cord. 1973W. McCarthy Detail ii. 87 He found the Beretta..as well as the jock strap. He quickly took off his trousers, put on the jock.
2. Abbrev. of jock-strap 2.
1963[see jock-strap 2]. 1968N.Y. Times 12 May iv. 13 An obstacle to such trust is the attitude of some students and faculty members who, for example, smear all anti-strike students with the blanket label of ‘jocks’. 1969C. Davidson in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 351 The administration will try by a whole range of ‘divide and rule’ tactics such as fostering the ‘Greek-Independent Split’, sexual double standards, intellectuals vs ‘jocks’, [etc.]. 1970Globe Mag. (Toronto) 26 Sept. 2/1 On the sundeck are the clubbers, the sweats, the jocks. 1972Time 2 Oct. 41/2 Rocks for jocks, elementary geology course popular among athletes at Pennsylvania.
▸ As the second element in compounds: an enthusiast or expert in the specified field; an enthusiastic or academically accomplished student of the specified subject. Cf. computer jock n. at computer n. Compounds 5, quant jock n. at quant adj. and n.3 Compounds.
1961F. Kohner Gidget goes Hawaiian 22 Just another surfing jock. 1968Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 i. 9/2 Jock, a devoted student in any subject (as Math-jock). 1988P. Hoffman Archimedes' Revenge 10 Stuyvesant High School, a Manhattan enclave for math and science jocks. 2000C. Bohjalian Trans-sister Radio (2001) i. 13 There will be a lot of drama jocks at Bennington [College], won't there? |