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Definition of jockey in English: jockeynounPlural jockeys ˈdʒɒkiˈdʒɑki A person who rides in horse races, especially as a profession. Example sentencesExamples - He should run a big race under his former regular jockey.
- And in any case every other owner, trainer and jockey in the race is always trying to win.
- He was an up-and-coming jockey until his car crash in 1999.
- Steeplechase jockeys will be paid 3 % more, about $140 per horse.
- After working as an assistant trainer and jockey agent, he returned ten months later.
- Back in his day Boo was a well-known and respected jockey on the Speedway.
- Irish flat racing jockeys are finding it increasingly tough to make the weight.
- Champion jockeys were soon riding on the Continent and in Ireland as well.
- The puzzle was to rearrange the pieces so that the jockeys were riding the horses.
- Not only do I love this sport, I think the jockeys who participated in it are the world's greatest athletes.
- Cartwright was a top steeplechase jockey before he became an assistant trainer for Mike Freeman in the early 1960s.
- The winning jockey has proved a controversial character, but is brilliant in the saddle.
- The entire jockey colony declined to ride Saturday's card by unanimous vote at 12: 15 p.m. EDT.
- Becoming a trainer or jockey agent is not as enticing, he said.
- At the time of the mishap, Krone was leading the Hollywood Park jockey standings.
- Do your figures show that there have been more jockeys injured in recent times?
- He was famously handed a six-month ban in 1994 for pulling another jockey off a horse at Beverley.
- Bobby has taken a winding road to his current position as a leading conditional jockey.
- Three of them became Irish champion jockey at various times between 1840 and 1882.
- Camejo is currently the meet's leading apprentice jockey with 30 races won through Tuesday.
Synonyms rider, horseman, horsewoman, equestrian Australian informal hoop
verbjockeys, jockeying, jockeyed ˈdʒɒkiˈdʒɑki [no object]1Struggle by every available means to gain or achieve something. both men will be jockeying for the two top jobs Example sentencesExamples - But for now, Sharpton and Moseley Braun are jockeying for position in preparation for the fight to come.
- Political, ethnic and religious groups are jockeying for position.
- Dallas can't afford either to be coughing up points to their Western conference competitors while jockeying for playoff position.
- While there is jockeying for control among these clans, the overall effect is for them to sustain one another in power.
- Matt pushed his way to the bar jockeying for position.
- Many powers jockeying for advantage meant shifting alliances and almost constant war.
- Already, local warlords, sensing the Taliban's days are numbered, are jockeying for power.
- If there was a league table in his mind in which politics, the GAA and religion were jockeying for position, they might well land in that order.
- I can see some editors already jockeying for position.
- Meanwhile, Beazley is back and jockeying for position.
- They certainly seem focused on the needs and aspirations of a real customer, rather than jockeying for celebrity endorsements.
- Over 170,000 have voted since the poll began on Sunday 20 October and competition is intense with the ten contenders jockeying for position.
- Others who have been waiting in the wings will be licking their chops, jockeying for space, for acceptability among the masses.
- Good Earth is so successful it's bulging inside and out, with delivery trucks jockeying for space in the alley and customers from afar lined up to park.
- I passed several filling stations on my way home where the forecourts were jammed with vehicles jockeying for position at the pumps.
- Mujahideen warlords fought each other, jockeying for power.
- Hands in pockets, they stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights breaking out and calming.
- Powerful members of the Executive Council were jockeying for position to succeed Tung as the next Chief Executive, Cheng claimed.
- We hear endlessly this talk of a power struggle, different factions jockeying for position.
- As the trade market heats up, the National League East contenders - all five of 'em - are jockeying for position.
Synonyms compete, contend, vie struggle, fight, tussle, scramble, push, jostle - 1.1with object and adverbial Handle or manipulate (someone or something) in a skilful manner.
he jockeyed his machine into a dive Example sentencesExamples - You may then be able to jockey your way to victory, or you may be willing or compelled to accept a draw.
- He may know how many units he can offer in his effort to jockey someone else into centre position.
- We intended to jockey our own luggage and weight was a serious consideration.
- He's diminutive enough to jockey a horse, but he's tough enough to wear down a defense.
- It is a competition where the elite use personal connections to jockey their cronies into key positions and thus win power and influence.
- There will always be oppression, people who jockey themselves into positions to control and exploit others.
- Throttling back I jockeyed my plane to the German's tail and blanketed his port side with fire.
- So, are we being exploited twice over by parties who only want to jockey us into voting for them?
- Forget Tom Cruise jockeying his F - 14 Tomcat fighter like a cowboy on amphetamines.
- You can't buy it in a bottle, hire a custom applicator to put it on or a molecular geneticist to jockey genes for it around in a lab.
- They live in Florida, while he jockeys his schedule to get home once a month.
- He hummed to himself as he jockeyed the truck alongside the pumps.
- If jockeying a joystick isn't for you, we've included three of our favorite new books - one for the fan, one for the thinker and one for the kids.
- Our pilot, Lt. Glenn Jorgenson, restarted number two and attempted to gain power by jockeying the supercharger controls back and forth.
- It went down like this: In mid-January Darren was jockeying the phones at Atlantic Records on a weeklong temp assignment.
Synonyms manoeuvre, ease, edge, manipulate, work, steer engineer, inveigle, insinuate, ingratiate, wheedle, coax, cajole informal finagle
Derivatives noun The quality of the horses, the standard of jockeyship, the level of prize money were all inferior to here. Example sentencesExamples - Even for a good cause, celebrity jockeyship doesn't bear thinking about.
- With three such talents plus McCoy and Tony Dobbin on this side of the water, Irish jockeyship is in good health.
- And if the proposed Scottish academy offers a professorship of all-weather jockeyship, only one Scot should be considered for the post.
- It was not just the precocious brilliance of his jockeyship but his heritage.
Origin Late 16th century: diminutive of Jock. Originally the name for an ordinary man, lad, or underling, the word came to mean 'mounted courier', hence the current sense (late 17th century). Another early use 'horse-dealer' (long a byword for dishonesty) probably gave rise to the verb sense 'manipulate', whereas the main verb sense probably relates to the behaviour of jockeys manoeuvring for an advantageous position during a race. A pet form of the man's name Jock, a northern form of jack, jockey was originally used, rather like Jack, for any ordinary man, boy, or underling. From this came a specialized sense of a servant as a mounted courier, which in the 17th century gave rise to today's meaning. In American slang a jockey was a specific kind of worker—so a beer jockey was a barmaid, a garage jockey a garage attendant, and a typewriter jockey a typist. From there it was natural to call someone who played records a disc jockey, in the 1940s.
Rhymes choccy, cocky, flocky, gnocchi, hockey, oche, pocky, rocky, schlocky, stocky Definition of jockey in US English: jockeynounˈjäkēˈdʒɑki 1A person who rides in horse races, especially as a profession. Example sentencesExamples - He was famously handed a six-month ban in 1994 for pulling another jockey off a horse at Beverley.
- The puzzle was to rearrange the pieces so that the jockeys were riding the horses.
- Becoming a trainer or jockey agent is not as enticing, he said.
- The entire jockey colony declined to ride Saturday's card by unanimous vote at 12: 15 p.m. EDT.
- Steeplechase jockeys will be paid 3 % more, about $140 per horse.
- He was an up-and-coming jockey until his car crash in 1999.
- He should run a big race under his former regular jockey.
- The winning jockey has proved a controversial character, but is brilliant in the saddle.
- Do your figures show that there have been more jockeys injured in recent times?
- Back in his day Boo was a well-known and respected jockey on the Speedway.
- Not only do I love this sport, I think the jockeys who participated in it are the world's greatest athletes.
- Three of them became Irish champion jockey at various times between 1840 and 1882.
- Irish flat racing jockeys are finding it increasingly tough to make the weight.
- After working as an assistant trainer and jockey agent, he returned ten months later.
- And in any case every other owner, trainer and jockey in the race is always trying to win.
- Champion jockeys were soon riding on the Continent and in Ireland as well.
- Bobby has taken a winding road to his current position as a leading conditional jockey.
- Cartwright was a top steeplechase jockey before he became an assistant trainer for Mike Freeman in the early 1960s.
- At the time of the mishap, Krone was leading the Hollywood Park jockey standings.
- Camejo is currently the meet's leading apprentice jockey with 30 races won through Tuesday.
Synonyms rider, horseman, horsewoman, equestrian - 1.1US An enthusiast or participant in a specified activity.
Example sentencesExamples - ‘Song of Rufus’ is the story of schizophrenic boxcar jockey Rufus, a man who follows a trail of music only he can hear.
- Being a video jockey has its own problems when it comes to studies.
- Jeff Markham is a simple gas jockey with a mysterious, violent past.
- For many of our local motorcycle jockeys any indicator on at all means it was actually left on by the previous owner in another lifetime!
- But the Scobleizer is no ordinary Windows-obsessed blog jockey.
- If I'm right, a fresh law jockey might be the ticket.
verbˈjäkēˈdʒɑki [no object]1Struggle by every available means to gain or achieve something. both men will be jockeying for the two top jobs Example sentencesExamples - Meanwhile, Beazley is back and jockeying for position.
- Many powers jockeying for advantage meant shifting alliances and almost constant war.
- We hear endlessly this talk of a power struggle, different factions jockeying for position.
- Others who have been waiting in the wings will be licking their chops, jockeying for space, for acceptability among the masses.
- Already, local warlords, sensing the Taliban's days are numbered, are jockeying for power.
- Hands in pockets, they stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights breaking out and calming.
- Matt pushed his way to the bar jockeying for position.
- Over 170,000 have voted since the poll began on Sunday 20 October and competition is intense with the ten contenders jockeying for position.
- Mujahideen warlords fought each other, jockeying for power.
- Dallas can't afford either to be coughing up points to their Western conference competitors while jockeying for playoff position.
- While there is jockeying for control among these clans, the overall effect is for them to sustain one another in power.
- But for now, Sharpton and Moseley Braun are jockeying for position in preparation for the fight to come.
- I can see some editors already jockeying for position.
- As the trade market heats up, the National League East contenders - all five of 'em - are jockeying for position.
- They certainly seem focused on the needs and aspirations of a real customer, rather than jockeying for celebrity endorsements.
- Powerful members of the Executive Council were jockeying for position to succeed Tung as the next Chief Executive, Cheng claimed.
- Good Earth is so successful it's bulging inside and out, with delivery trucks jockeying for space in the alley and customers from afar lined up to park.
- Political, ethnic and religious groups are jockeying for position.
- I passed several filling stations on my way home where the forecourts were jammed with vehicles jockeying for position at the pumps.
- If there was a league table in his mind in which politics, the GAA and religion were jockeying for position, they might well land in that order.
- 1.1with object and adverbial Handle or manipulate (someone or something) in a skillful manner.
Jason jockeyed his machine into a dive Example sentencesExamples - We intended to jockey our own luggage and weight was a serious consideration.
- If jockeying a joystick isn't for you, we've included three of our favorite new books - one for the fan, one for the thinker and one for the kids.
- So, are we being exploited twice over by parties who only want to jockey us into voting for them?
- It went down like this: In mid-January Darren was jockeying the phones at Atlantic Records on a weeklong temp assignment.
- He may know how many units he can offer in his effort to jockey someone else into centre position.
- He's diminutive enough to jockey a horse, but he's tough enough to wear down a defense.
- It is a competition where the elite use personal connections to jockey their cronies into key positions and thus win power and influence.
- He hummed to himself as he jockeyed the truck alongside the pumps.
- You can't buy it in a bottle, hire a custom applicator to put it on or a molecular geneticist to jockey genes for it around in a lab.
- Throttling back I jockeyed my plane to the German's tail and blanketed his port side with fire.
- They live in Florida, while he jockeys his schedule to get home once a month.
- Forget Tom Cruise jockeying his F - 14 Tomcat fighter like a cowboy on amphetamines.
- You may then be able to jockey your way to victory, or you may be willing or compelled to accept a draw.
- Our pilot, Lt. Glenn Jorgenson, restarted number two and attempted to gain power by jockeying the supercharger controls back and forth.
- There will always be oppression, people who jockey themselves into positions to control and exploit others.
Synonyms manoeuvre, ease, edge, manipulate, work, steer
Origin Late 16th century: diminutive of Jock. Originally the name for an ordinary man, lad, or underling, the word came to mean ‘mounted courier’, hence the current sense (late 17th century). Another early use ‘horse-dealer’ (long a byword for dishonesty) probably gave rise to the verb sense ‘manipulate’, whereas the main verb sense probably relates to the behavior of jockeys manoeuvring for an advantageous position during a race. |