jocker n.1
1. (US) a tramp who travels with a younger partner, working for him and poss. acting as his catamite.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Century Mag. (N.Y.) Nov. 107/2: Subject to the whims and passions of various ‘jockers’, or protectors. | |
| [ | ![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Coburg Leader (Vic.) 29 June 1/6: Jocker, the 5s a week instructor of kids should not talk of a sixpenny worth as he might get a bob’s worth]. |
| Tramping with Tramps 57: He is forced to do exactly what his ‘jocker’ commands. | |
| St Louis Republican (MO) 30 Aug. 52/1: His Jocker, Whitey, had decided to give him his freedom. For seven long yers he had slaved slaved and toiled for his Jocker. | |
| N.Y. Times Sun. Mag. 27 Jan. 4: The men [i.e. beggars] are called ‘jockers,’ the boys ‘punks,’ the girls ‘cows’. | |
| Hobo 103: A jocker is a man who exploits boys; that is, he either exploits their sex or he has them steal or beg for him or both. | |
| Milk and Honey Route 34: It is true that the punk serves the jocker, begs food for him, builds his fire, washes his shirt and runs errands. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 133: jocker A tramp of the sodomite type. | |
| From Here to Eternity (1998) 166: It was also on the bum, at the not so tender age of fifteen, that he’d knocked another jocker off a steep downgrade in Georgia. |
2. (US, also jocky) a male homosexual, the ‘husband’ of the couple.
| Manual of Psychiatry in Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 439: Turk, wolf, or jocker, an active sodomist. | |
| Und. and Prison Sl. 47: jocker, jocky, n. A homosexual man. | |
| Und. Speaks n.p.: Jocker, one who practices sodomy (ockerjay). | |
| ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants. | |
| et al. DAUL 111/1: Jocker, an active pederast. | |
| Riot (1967) 177: ‘The jockers are carryin’ on like they’re makin’ it with real broads.’ [...] ‘The jockers are as freakish as the queens.’. | |
| ‘Catheads [...] and Cho-Cho Sticks’ in Abernethy Bounty of Texas (1990) 208: jocker, n. – a pederast; the male partner in sex relations. |
3. (US, also jock, joko) a predatory homosexual, esp. in the context of prison, who forces his attentions on younger/weaker men or boys.
| ‘Prison Dict.’ in AS VIII:3 (1933) 28/2: JOCKER. A sweet daddy. | |
| Prison Days and Nights 150: The active participants [...] are known as ‘wolves’, ‘jockers’, ‘daddies’, etc. | |
| Rough Stuff 185: Sometimes when a con. goes to a hole for disobeying the rules, the kid will break in after him by doing some minor offence, in order to be with what he calls his ‘joko’. | |
| In For Life 99: The perennial bachelor [...] gained a certain amount of prestige in certain circles [...] from being known as a wolf, or a jocker, or a Turk. | |
| in Sweet Daddy 40: Sol? Meanest jock alive. | |
| On the Yard (2002) 35: The Spook pried open his clenched rump [...] ‘My, my,’ the Spook murmured, ‘not a feather on him. Some jocker’s due to score.’. | |
| Animal Factory 12: The jockers will have one idea and the fairies will want to gobble you up. | |
| Maledicta V:1+2 (Summer + Winter) 265: An aggressive homosexual, a jocker, forces himself upon a gump, a passive homosexual, or a punk, a weak person used for sex. | |
| (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 122: Say I took it. Tyrone give it! Man, I was the fuckin’ boss jocker on my dorm! | |
| Plainclothes Naked (2002) 153: You think I’m gonna put on the red dress for you, right? You think you’re my daddy, huh Mac? You my jocker now, you piece of shit? | |
| Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] ‘He needs protection. I want you to pretend this queen’s your punk, to keep the jockers off her’. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 407: Mitchell fights and bites and becomes a boss jocker at Georgia Street Juvenile. |
4. (US) a lecher.
| Thief 44: I suppose all he wanted was to get a look at this girl [...] trying to get my goat the way an old jocker like that will. |