jockey
a person who rides horses professionally in races.
Informal. a person who pilots, operates, or guides the movement of something, as an airplane or automobile.
to ride (a horse) as a jockey.
Informal. to operate or guide the movement of; pilot; drive.
to move, bring, put, etc., by skillful maneuvering: The movers jockeyed the sofa through the door.
to trick or cheat: The salesman jockeyed them into buying an expensive car.
to manipulate cleverly or trickily: He jockeyed himself into office.
to aim at an advantage by skillful maneuvering.
to act trickily; seek an advantage by trickery.
Origin of jockey
1Other words from jockey
- jock·ey·like, jock·ey·ish, adjective
- jock·ey·ship, noun
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How to use jockey in a sentence
A jockey guided a quarter horse named Chiquibaby over to the trainer, who jabbed the needle into the horse’s neck and pushed the plunger before jumping away.
A well-known jockey pushed out of regulated racing because of his serial use of banned electric shock devices also found refuge at Rancho El Centenario — until he died following an accident while racing there.
In horse racing, a whole system of consultants, trainers and jockeys are ready to turn a hobby into a professional venture for the ultrawealthy.
When You’re a Billionaire, Your Hobbies Can Slash Your Tax Bill | by Paul Kiel, Jesse Eisinger and Jeff Ernsthausen | December 8, 2021 | ProPublicaOh, Amazon also operates its own connected TV platform, Fire TV, that jockeys with Roku as well as smart TV makers like Samsung and Vizio and that enables the company to sell ads across the various ad-supported apps distributed on the platform.
Media Briefing: Media companies’ DE&I efforts are still falling short | Tim Peterson | May 27, 2021 | DigidayOdds, analysis and post positions for the 2021 Preakness StakesRombauer is a speedy closer with an experienced jockey in Flavien Prat, who has hit the board more than half the time this year on horses with similar running styles.
How to build the best trifectas and superfectas for the 2021 Preakness Stakes | Neil Greenberg | May 14, 2021 | Washington Post
And my father is a jockey so when I saw his picture I knew it was a grandstand at a racetrack.
Exclusive: Michael Phelps’s Intersex Self-Proclaimed Girlfriend, Taylor Lianne Chandler, Tells All | Aurora Snow | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMy mother died when I was three months old in a car accident, and my dad being a jockey, he gave me to his parents to raise.
Exclusive: Michael Phelps’s Intersex Self-Proclaimed Girlfriend, Taylor Lianne Chandler, Tells All | Aurora Snow | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the jockey ad, half of Jim Palmer's princely, brooding face is fully lighted, the other half is masked in shadow.
His one stipulation before okaying a poster of his jockey ad, for example, was that all proceeds go to cystic fibrosis.
Palmer turned out to be so dependable in his public appearances that jockey was shocked.
He never threw away an inch, and his way of stealing foot by foot was worthy of any jockey.
The Chequers | James RuncimanIt was not a pad saddle such as jockey's ride, nor yet a civilian outfit without horn and only one web.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. HarneyStill we raced on, neck and neck, she riding with hands low and weight slightly forward, workmanlike as a jockey.
The Way of a Man | Emerson HoughHe drew out his flute and began to play "jockey to the Fair" in the style of a man who had never known moment's sorrow.
Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas HardyHe gave himself a boyhood as a jockey and also enlisted fictionally in the Spanish American war.
The Boy Grew Older | Heywood Broun
British Dictionary definitions for jockey
/ (ˈdʒɒkɪ) /
a person who rides horses in races, esp as a profession or for hire
(tr) to ride (a horse) in a race
(intr) to ride as a jockey
(intr often foll by for) to try to obtain an advantage by manoeuvring, esp literally in a race or metaphorically, as in a struggle for power (esp in the phrase jockey for position)
to trick or cheat (a person)
Origin of jockey
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