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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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Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
By Season 2, the jock that the audience was supposed to hate had evolved into a buddy for Dustin and babysitter to the younger gang.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
The 45-year-old actor has always projected a sort of likable, hunky lunkhead persona, giving the movies their equivalent of the campus jock that secretly had a sly sense of self-deprecating humor and theater-department chops.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
At fifteen, on a whim, Russell, a pretty jock with a mane of wild, honey-blond curls, passionate about her after-school dance classes but with no particular dreams about show business, had tagged along with some friends to a Disney open casting call at the Colorado Convention Center.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The actor had previously met success with the first film in Netflix's The Kissing Booth series, but his searing performance as the nervy, brooding jock Nate Jacobs was among the most potent features that made Euphoria a water cooler hit.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
By Season 2, the jock that the audience was supposed to hate had evolved into a buddy for Dustin and babysitter to the younger gang.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
The 45-year-old actor has always projected a sort of likable, hunky lunkhead persona, giving the movies their equivalent of the campus jock that secretly had a sly sense of self-deprecating humor and theater-department chops.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
At fifteen, on a whim, Russell, a pretty jock with a mane of wild, honey-blond curls, passionate about her after-school dance classes but with no particular dreams about show business, had tagged along with some friends to a Disney open casting call at the Colorado Convention Center.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Jock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jock. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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