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Definition of jockey
jockeys
1 : a person who rides or drives a horse especially as a professional in a race
2 : a person who operates or works with a specified vehicle, device, object, or material a bus jockey pencil jockeys
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Recent Examples of jockey from the Web
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After wooing him by staging a showing of his photos, McFarland cemented their friendship by slipping McMullan a key to the town house and hiring his 26-year-old son, Liam, as its disc jockey.
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Swire earned most of his money as a plumber, but his passion came as a disc jockey, leading dance music at parties and events, Taylor said.
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A little before 4 a.m. Monday, the disc jockey who will forever be known as Rodney on the ROQ bid farewell to his long-running radio station home, KROQ-FM, with a song by the Monkees.
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Its trainer, Miguel Hernandez, used to be a jockey.
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In a non-descript suburb of Moscow, the marriage between beauty-salon owner Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) and middle-management desk jockey Boris (Alexey Rozin) is in its death throes.
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Nothing more happened, until the undercover FBI agent returned to town on March 15, 2016, and contacted Douglas Stiff, a disc jockey at Shotgun Willie’s.
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The festival's ostrich races features jockeys riding on the backs of the ostriches, spurring the animals to sprint at speeds as fast as 30 mph.
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The winner was ridden by jockey John Velazquez, who also rode Animal Kingdom to a win at the 2011 Derby.
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Origin and Etymology of jockey
Jockey, Scots nickname for John
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Definition of jockey
jockeyed
;jockeying
transitive verb
1a : to maneuver or manipulate by adroit or devious means was jockeyed out of the jobb : to change the position of by a series of movements jockey a truck into position
2a : to ride or drive (a horse) as a jockeyb : drive, operate
3 : to deal shrewdly or fraudulently with
intransitive verb
1 : to maneuver for advantage —often used in the phrase jockey for position
2 : to act as a jockey
Examples of jockey in a Sentence
There was a lot of political jockeying at the fund-raiser.
The driver carefully jockeyed the truck into a narrow space in the crowded parking lot.
Recent Examples of jockey from the Web
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Albeck and Hodges are both jockeying for a piece of $11.6 billion the National Restaurant Association reports Hoosiers will spend dining out this year.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'jockey'. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of jockey
1708
JOCKEY Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of jockey for English Language Learners
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: someone who rides horses in races
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: someone who operates or works with a specified vehicle, device, object, or material
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Definition of jockey for English Language Learners
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: to do something in an effort to get an advantage
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: to change the position of (something) by slow and careful movements
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