jockstrapn.

Brit.

/ˈdʒɒkstrap/, U.S.

/ˈdʒɑkˌstræp/

Etymology: < jock n.³ + strap n.

1. A supporter or protector for the male genitals, worn esp. by sportsmen; also (occasionally), a cache-sexe n.

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supporter1888

jockey strap1896

jockstrap1897

athletic supporter1899

athletic support1911

jock1952

1897 U.S. Patent Office Index 27 Bennett, Charles F., Chicago, Ill. Combined jock-strap and suspensory.

1911 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 179/2 Athletic Support. Sharp & Smith's Bike-Jock Strap, being made entirely of elastic.

1929 T. Wolfe Look homeward, Angel (1930) ii. xiv. 191 The checking of overcoats, evening wraps, jock-straps, and jewellery.

1933 E. E. Cummings eimi 52 Do I seriously..seem to see your human mind squatting in your magic jockstrap, freely watching Hitchy Goomy Gitchie Koo (the sickest medicine-man of them all) turn your ailments into formulas?

1935 New Statesman 14 Sept. 357/1 (advt.) The Linia Belt, including a Linia Jock Strap.

1936 H. Miller Black Spring 247 The night is cold but the queen is naked save for a jock-strap.

1947 ‘A. P. Gaskell’ Big Game 15 I had to undo my pants and look to see whether I'd put on my jock-strap.

1954 Dancing Times Mar. 400 Articles for Sale. Jock straps for either sex in pink, white or black.

1960 Guardian 23 Sept. 26/7 A Nubian chauffeur in a leopard~skin jockstrap.

1969 Daily Tel. 7 Mar. 21/1 It is the first play in which I remember to have encountered an actor with a jockstrap which squeaks when pushed.

2. An athletic (as distinguished from an aesthetic or intellectual) man (esp. one at a university); a ‘hearty’. North American slang.

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society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun]

playerOE

player1440

sporter1531

gamester1562

sporteer1654

sportsman1699

matchmakera1704

sporter1742

sporting parson1757

gamesman1812

sport1873

sportsman1886

sportswoman1900

hearty1915

jockstrap1956

jock1963

jockstrapper1967

1956 Amer. Speech 31 192 A healthy, athletic young man addicted to sports may wince under the pointed jockstrap marine.

1963 Amer. Speech 38 169 A college athlete: jock (81), animal (32)... The full synecdoche itself, jockstrap, was also reported once.

Derivatives

ˈjockstrapped adj.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing underwear > other

jockstrapped1960

1960 Spectator 23 Sept. 432 Even prints biographical notes on its jock-strapped heroes.

ˈjockstrapper n.

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