rock jockn.1
/ˈrɒk dʒɒk/, U.S. /ˈrɑk ˌdʒɑk/ colloquial (originally U.S.).
A disc jockey who plays rock music.
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co-host1908
announcer1922
newsreader1925
race-reader1926
newscaster1930
sportscaster1930
quizzee1933
school broadcaster1937
commentator1938
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record jockey1940
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deejay1946
colourman1947
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jock1952
speakerine1957
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rock jock1961
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1961 Broadcasting 11 Sept. 113/3 (advt.) Rock jock. No screamer. Wishes to relocate. Presently employed. Rated #1 major market.
1972 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 3 Sept. 3/5 [He] hardly comes off as the ‘guys and gals rock jock in radioland’, but he turned disc jockey for a day.
1997 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 19 Dec. (Friday Guide section) 2 Other scraps from the group's early days include the Five In A Row video clip rip-offs of FM radio rock jocks.
2006 M. Kosser How Nashville became Music City xxviii. 336 I listened to..Scott Shannon, who's now the biggest rock jock in New York.
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rock jockn.2
/ˈrɒk dʒɒk/, U.S. /ˈrɑk ˌdʒɑk/ colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).
A mountaineer; an avid rock climber.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > mountaineer or climber
rock climber1767
rockman1798
cragsman1816
cliffsman1829
mountaineer1860
Alpestrian1861
alpinist1861
cliffer1861
glissader1861
ascensionist1863
alpenstocker1864
shin-scraper1869
hillmana1885
second1907
Munro-bagger1910
summiteer1926
middleman1968
rock jock1980
free soloist1984
1980 Washington Post 29 May b4/3 [He] is well-versed..in the dry, ‘British’ wit that distinguishes him from the ‘rock jocks’ of the mountaineering world.
1987 High Mar. 63/1 To solo a hundred gritstone extremes..in one day..was not a suicidal act or even a means of gaining publicity for an ageing rock jock.
1996 S. F. Rogers Solo Introd. viii. In the intervening years I had become a rock jock, which meant motel camping, and meals in restaurants.
2002 Outside Dec. 70/1 He and several buddies pulled off multiple single-day ascents of Yosemite routes that most rock jocks complete in three to five days.
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