shock jock

noun

: a radio personality noted for provocative or inflammatory commentary

Examples of shock jock in a Sentence

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From offending an entire city so badly that local stations boycotted their music to dropping so many expletives on live radio that even shock jock Howard Stern clutched his pearls, Green Day has been nothing if not consistent in its nearly two decades as a band. —Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026

During Glaser's interview with Stern, the shock jock praised her for mocking CBS News despite the Golden Globes airing on CBS. —Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 14 Jan. 2026

Howard Stern, then a rising shock jock on terrestrial radio, went all in, calling for Goetz to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. —Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026

First, there's the film's claustrophobic setting: The story takes place over one snowy morning in the small Ontario town of Pontypool, where washed-up radio shock jock ​​Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) is narrating a zombie apocalypse in real time from his recording booth. —Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1986, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for shock jock

• alcock
• beanstalk
• bedrock
• boardwalk
• catwalk
• cornstalk
• crosswalk
• deadlock
• feedstock
• fetlock
• flintlock
• goshawk