jock
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- noun
- /dʒɑk/
- Slang
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- So I think he's like, he's like the typical jock in a high school movie that's like the captain of a football team.
- the jock stereotype
- dumb jocks
- jock identity
He was kind of more of like a big jock kind of meathead.
- He was kind of more of like a big jock kind of meathead.
- And you're playing like a fucking jock, alpha male bar owner.
- You got hipsters, jocks, nerds, those guys that always scream, let's go.
- I think it's the greatest story of any jock who's ever lived.
- And I remember telling my science lab partner who was like one of the jocks on the football team, Dave.
- There is a point where for some reason, I don't know why every jock kind of had a thing for an emo girl.
- Lots of different conflicts in town, especially with lots of board squaddies, usually with the jocks.
- The next one says I assume Alex was the first nice guy you dated or that you dated jocks before him.
- For those of you who are uninitiated, Playing With Science is a sports science mashup where Neil likes to say where jocks and geeks collide.
- So he's and from what they said in his his stories about him, he was more of a jock than he was an intellectual when he was in college.
- I know I seem like a jock, but that that got a quicker laugh than I'd hoped.
Examples
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A lot of people think I'm just a jock, but I have a real sensitive side.
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The older one, Amy, was bossy, a tomboy, and quite a jock in grade school and high school.
Fiction book (1996) -
It's so cool that you were a jock.
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And I'm much more of a jock now than I was then.
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And I went to these schools that were very sports driven and jock driven.
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And they all had a subject or a couple of my friends were jocks who were like the star football player.
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I guess growing up I was never one of like the jocks of school.
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Nice to see the jocks working together with the intellectuals.
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Joey Dorsey, a well-muscled jock with great cheekbones, makes fun of her from his row.
Fiction book (1999) -
Many students admire the jock for his impressive athletic skills on the basketball team.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who takes part in a sport or game
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2.0
A person who trains for and competes in sports
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2.8
A person who plays sports, often as a job or in competitions
A person who plays or enjoys sports
Compounds
How Athletic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jock meaning 'an athlete' likely comes from the older word jockstrap, because players who play sports often wore that piece of gear, so jock came to mean someone who plays or loves sports.