How do you use the word "jockey" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "jockey": He is out and away the best jockey. Tom is a disc jockey.

Jockey Meaning

/ˈd͡ʒɒki/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounOne who rides racehorses competitively.

nounThat part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire

Sentence Examples

He is out and away the best jockey.

Tom is a disc jockey.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

screw cheat

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The ____ guided the horse to the finish line and won the race.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The ____ rode the horse with great skill and managed to win the race by a very narrow margin tonight.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Middle English Jackin Middle English Jankyn English Jack English Jock English jock Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y ▲ English -y ▲ Scots -ieinflu. English -ie English -ey English jockey The word is by origin a diminutive of jock, the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name John, which is also used generically for "boy" or "fellow" (compare Jack, Dick), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's Richard III. v. 3, 304. Equivalent to jock + -ey. In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp", whence the verb to jockey, "to outwit" or "to do" a person out of something. The current meaning of a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"And the crime for which Nuncomar was about to die was regarded by them in much the same light in which the selling of an unsound horse, for a sound price, is regarded by a Yorkshire jockey." — 1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings:

"This particularly obtains in all Parliamentary affairs. Whether the business in hand be to get a man in, or get a man out, or get a man over, or promote a railway, or jockey a railway, or what else, nothing is understood to be so effectual as scouring nowhere in a violent hurry—in short, as taking cabs and going about." — 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:

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