Jockey
['dʒɒkɪ] or ['dʒɑki]
Definition
(noun.) someone employed to ride horses in horse races.
(noun.) an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus; 'he's a truck jockey'; 'a computer jockey'; 'a disc jockey'.
(verb.) ride a racehorse as a professional jockey.
(verb.) compete (for an advantage or a position).
Checker: Wilmer--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A professional rider of horses in races.
(n.) A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
(n.) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
(v. t.) " To jostle by riding against one."
(v. t.) To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer.
(v. i.) To play or act the jockey; to cheat.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Horse-jockey, dealer in horses.[2]. Cheat, swindler, sharper, rogue, trickster, knave, impostor, blackleg, shark, slyboots.
v. a. Cheat, trick, deceive, gull, dupe, overreach, cozen, chouse, outwit, bamboozle, circumvent, delude, hoodwink, diddle, beguile, mislead, inveigle, gammon, humbug, impose upon.
Typist: Randall
Definition
n. a man (orig. a boy) who rides horses in a race: a horse-dealer: one who takes undue advantage in business.—v.t. to jostle by riding against: to cheat.—ns. Jock′eyism Jock′eyship the art or practice of a jockey.—Jockey Club an association for the promotion and ordering of horse-racing.
Edited by Darrell
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a jockey, omens you will appreciate a gift from an unexpected source. For a young woman to dream that she associates with a jockey, or has one for a lover, indicates she will win a husband out of her station. To see one thrown from a horse, signifies you will be called on for aid by strangers.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
From jog, to move slowly, and key, something that makes fast. Hence, one who makes the pace fast or slow, according to instructions.
Edited by Jacqueline
Examples
- If you keep her small enough and she's a boy, maybe he will be a jockey. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I have every hope, however, that your horse will start upon Tuesday, and I beg that you will have your jockey in readiness. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He has served the Colonel for five years as jockey and for seven as trainer, and has always shown himself to be a zealous and honest servant. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The trainer, John Straker, is a retired jockey who rode in Colonel Ross's colors before he became too heavy for the weighing-chair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Take care of yourself, jockey of Norfolk! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Pretty soon he'll feel bad because he can't join the Jockey Club, I guess, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- After some more wine I told the story of the jockey who found the penny. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The horses were coming back, through the gate, wet and sweating, the jockeys quieting them and riding up to dismount under the trees. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- And then, these exchanges, they don't answer when you have 'cute jockeys to deal with. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And the way in which she jockeyed Jos, and which she described with infinite fun, carried up his delight to a pitch of quite insane enthusiasm. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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