jockstrap
Americannoun
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jockstraps
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of jockstrap
First recorded in 1895–1900; jock “male organ” (variant of jack 1 “male”; see Jock) + strap
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From there, the lowly jockstrap found massive success as the men’s underwear industry grew.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
The modern day sports bra began life as a jockstrap.
From BBC ● May 10, 2022
From Niall Horan's toast to Russell Crowe’s jockstrap: celebrity auction items - ranked!
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2019
The host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” sent a jockstrap worn by Russell Crowe in the 2005 film “Cinderella Man” to the store in an effort to bring in customers.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2018
On Monday, there’s a plastic grocery bag looped through the handle of my locker, and my first thought is that it’s a jockstrap.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
Reserved as he was, Foster found it easy to befriend the middle-school boy who dutifully slipped on rubber gloves to pick up jockstraps and jerseys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2025
Sean McDougle, 55, a queer nudist-naturist in upstate New York, owns about 40 jockstraps.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
In 1928, Arthur Kneibler was hired by Cooper Underwear Company, where the "apparel engineer" introduced underwear briefs styled off of jockstraps.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 9, 2024
She sewed two jockstraps together and the first Jogbra prototype was born.
From BBC ● May 10, 2022
Wearing heavy gloves, football helmets with steel face masks, and Bakelite jockstraps, the trainees parried and thrusted in training pits, then ran an obstacle course over which they had to knock down pugil-swinging attackers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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