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: athlete sense 1
especially
: a school or college athlete
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: a person devoted to a single pursuit or interest
computer jocks
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: pilot
especially
: a fighter pilot
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The book’s cast includes boarding-school jocks, fetishists in full-body rubber suits, lonely lumberjacks going courting in the depths of winter.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2025
Classic Rock, the stuff jocks listened to at parties and practice?
—ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
No wonder, then, that this aging jock in velvet and furs is at his giddiest when making plans to dress up as a Turk or a shepherd, resorting to boyish pranks in such garb when manhood becomes a duty.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The Glee cast has suffered several losses, starting during its original run, when Monteith, who played the jock Finn, died of a drug overdose on July 13, 2013.
—EW.com, 16 May 2025
The book’s cast includes boarding-school jocks, fetishists in full-body rubber suits, lonely lumberjacks going courting in the depths of winter.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2025
Classic Rock, the stuff jocks listened to at parties and practice?
—ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
No wonder, then, that this aging jock in velvet and furs is at his giddiest when making plans to dress up as a Turk or a shepherd, resorting to boyish pranks in such garb when manhood becomes a duty.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2025
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“Jock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jock. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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