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Jockey   /dʒˈɑki/   Listen
Jockey

noun
(pl. jockeys)
1.
Someone employed to ride horses in horse races.
2.
An operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus.  "A computer jockey" , "A disc jockey"
verb
(past & past part. jockeyed; pres. part. jockeying)
1.
Defeat someone through trickery or deceit.  Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, screw, shaft.
2.
Compete (for an advantage or a position).
3.
Ride a racehorse as a professional jockey.



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"Jockey" Quotes from Famous Books



... wager their coin on scrubs and dark horses ridden by third-rate "warned-off" jockeys from other lands, but probably not ten in ten thousand of the lookers on at the Grand Prix du Jockey Club in May ever make the occasion of the spring meeting an opportunity for visiting the fine old historic ...
— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield
... over the first jump in a body. They came down the straight on the first time round, packed closely, a glittering mass of shining horses and bright colours. One dropped at the jump near the judge's box, and as the other horses raced away round the turn the riderless horse followed, while his jockey lay still for a moment, a little scarlet blur upon the turf. Eager helpers ran forward to pick him up, but he was on his feet before they could reach him, and came limping up the hill, a little ...
— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce
... was to ease the strain all he could by removing his weight from the point where he believed the thorn to have been hidden. This he did by leaning forward after the manner of a clever jockey in a race, throwing pretty much all his body upon the shoulders and ...
— The Saddle Boys of the Rockies - Lost on Thunder Mountain • James Carson
... deducted three or five per cent. from the winning bet (incidentally "ringing up" more tickets than were sold on the winning horse), while the bookmaker, for special inducement, would scratch any horse in the race. The jockey also, for a consideration, would slacken speed to allow a prearranged winner to walk in, while the judges on the stand ...
— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage
... much irritation, which, in an atmosphere so charged with revolutionary electricity, was not without importance. The dissolute Bourbon prince who reigned in Lucca, Charles Ludovico, had but one desire, which was to increase his civil list. He hit upon an English jockey named Ward, who came to Italy in the service of a German count, and this person he made his Chancellor of the Exchequer. By various luminous strokes, Ward furthered his Sovereign's object without much increasing the taxation, and when matters began ...
— The Liberation of Italy • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco


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