jock n.1
1. (also joke) the genitals, both male and female; also in fig. use [the word vanished from the mainstream but remains in US black in the late 20C+].
 | ‘The original Black Joke. Sent from Dublin’ 🎵 [I]n working a joke, as will lather like soap. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. 117: A Man’s Privities Jocum. | |
| New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: jock private parts of a man or woman. | |
| ‘The Standing Jok-E!’ in Black Joke 23: There’s nothing like a jok-e, / Or a long Tongo. | |
| ‘The Brave Old Jock’ in Rambler’s Flash Songster 13: A song to the jock, the brave old jock, / Who has stood so stiff and strong. | |
| ‘Billy Taylor’s Three Square’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 12: Now like Macheath, with all his doxes, / He strutted like a dunghill cock! / But knew not which to serve the first, / With his most tremendous jock. | |
| ‘The Steam Jock!’ in Nobby Songster 35: He had such a wonderful jock d’ye see, / There was not such another game cock to be found. | |
| ‘The Brave Old Jock’ Rambler’s Flash Songster 13: A song to the jock, the brave old jock, / Who has stood so stiff and strong, / Here’s health and renown, to his crimson crown, / And his stump so stout and long. / He’s out on the town, when the sun goes down, / In every corner dark. | |
| ‘Said A Quim To A Jock’ in Rambler’s Flash Songster 47: Now this quim was a maid, / And the jock was a blade, [,...] He hung his head down, / And very soon owned himself beaten, / Said the quim, you vain fool, / Thrice your courage I cool, / I twenty such jocks could have eaten. | |
| ‘The Origin of Species’ in Pearl 1 July 169: They gazed on their privates with mutual delight, / And she soon found a hole to put jock out of sight. | |
| My Secret Life (1966) I 172: Our conversation used to begin by my saying, ‘How’s your duff?’ ‘Oh, nicely, thank you; how is your jock?’. | |
| Confessions of Nemesis Hunt II 4: They wanted to laugh and [...] to see lots of pretty girls, and feel their jocks stiffen [...] cunt, and lots of it, is what the greater part of this blessed nation wants. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | (con. 1880–1924) Anecdota erótica 18: Man invited to join the Jock Club. ‘I’m going to be President of this Club, cause mine is 13 inches long.’. | |
| ‘Claudette Coalbin in “Bigger Yet”’ [comic strip] Sweet shit – what a jock!! | |
| in Limerick (1953) 34: An old man at the Folies Bergère / Had a jock, a most wondrous affair. | |
| Friends of Eddie Coyle 57: I’ll be beating the bushes with snow to my jock. | |
| ‘New Rap Language’ 🎵 Girls on my jock and all on lock. | |
| in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 612: Did you ever see a nigger with a foot-long jock? | |
| ‘Cramping My Style’ 🎵 Cause, I ain’t about havin nobody feenin on my jock! | |
| Hip-Hop Connection Dec. 45: Jock means crotch, so if someone is on your ‘jock’ [...] they’re on your crotch. | |
| ‘Drips’ 🎵 The womb beater, clean pussy eater, insertin’ my jock in that spot hotter than the hottest block. |
2. as a garment.
(a) an athletic support or ‘jock strap’.
| [ | | Fort Worth Dly Gaz. (TX) 7 Jan. 6/6: The improved jock strap or support is suposed to be of great aid to gymnasts, rowers [...] and runners. |
| [ | | S.F. Examiner 25 Jan. 5/6: [advert] Sporting and Athletic Goods [...] Jockstraps and Suspensions......50 [cents]]. |
| in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dict. (1998). | |
| Entry E (1961) 27: If one brandy’s gonna cut down your efficiency, you might as well hang up the jock. | |
| in Erotic Muse (1992) 270: My grandfather’s cock was too large for his jock, / So it hung ninety years on the floor. | |
| Semi-Tough 8: Anybody who carries a football in his general direction. He tears their jock off. | |
| In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 67: Follow them two and find out where they hang their jocks and where they earn their bread. | |
| Hot House 181: ‘[T]he guys in high school who everyone picked on—you know, the buttheads who got a jock put on their head in gym class’. |
(b) (Aus./Irish/US, also jockettes, jox) in pl., underwear, usu. men’s.
| Pimp 124: I felt like a bum in my white cotton ‘jocks’. | |
| Skeletons 91: I [...] slipped into clean jocks. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | G’DAY 7: Shane and his friend Macka are going to the disco. They put on their best strides and a new pair of jocks. | |
| Human Torpedo 17: Someone got his jeans down and someone else got his jocks. [Ibid.] 119: That Brinkley kid set fire to his jockettes doing blue flames. | |
| Official and Doubtful 54: They had the polis changing their jocks twice a day. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | The Joy (2015) [ebook] [I] slip me hand down the back of me trousers and into me jocks and then sit back. | |
| Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] Les stripped straight off down to his jox and a clean T-shirt. | |
| Leaving Bondi (2013) [ebook] Les [...] put his jox back on. | |
| Something Fishy (2006) 132: He was naked except for a pair of mustard-coloured jockettes. | |
| Luck in the Greater West (2008) 112: He undid his jeans and pulled his jocks down. | |
| ‘No Through Road’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] The little fella came out in his fucken jocks. | |
| me-stepmums-too-fuckin-hot-mate at www.fakku.net 🌐 ’magine if she came home an’ caught me havin’ a flog to her jocks. | |
| Glorious Heresies 184: ‘[Y]ou stuck your rickety claws down the front of Tony Cusack’s young fella’s jocks’. | |
| I Am Already Dead 20: A go-bag containing a few pairs of jocks, socks, t-shirts and a toothbrush. |
3. (US campus and sporting, also jocko, jockette, jockstrap, jockstrapper) a sportsman, esp. an assiduously keen one; also attrib.
| Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: Jock strap Marine ... athlete. | |
| Dly Princetonian 24 Sept. n.p.: Sophomore Jocks -- Interested in Lake Carnegie Tug o’ War… sign up at 102 Holder. | |
| Harvard Crimson 22 Mar. 🌐 Despite its current appellation as the ‘Jock’ House, Winthrop remains one of the most versatile yet homogeneous houses at Harvard. | |
| Where the Boys Are 153: A jock is a college athlete, not a fencer or golfer or anything amateur. | |
| New Centurions 24: Franklin was an all-American jock strapper. A high school letterman. | |
| Great Santini (1977) 321: Poor dumb jock of a brother. Your brain has begun to rot since basketball season started. | |
| Campus Sl. Spring 3: jock – an athlete. jockette – a female athlete. | |
| Bonfire of the Vanities 102: Caughey was also a jock, but more the Triathlon type, with a narrow face and a long chin. | |
| Rivethead (1992) 18: An alternative to the sex-starved jockos and wily potheads and piranha greasers. | |
| Between the Devlin 71: ‘[A] typical Australian jock half full of beer who’d root a goanna with a festered arse if someone would hold its head’. | |
| Teenage Wasteland 112: I ask about the jocks. ‘I know they rule the school because of the teams, but are they smart?’. | |
| PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 159: Come on, drop that rugby jock façade for an hour. | |
| in Metro (London) 13 Apr. 23: Charges against three white US college ‘jocks’ accused of sexually assaulting a black stripper have been dropped. | |
| (con. 1954) Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] Sporting news wasn’t the same, which was why I covered the jockstraps. | |
| Last Kind Words 140: A lot of jocks milled about in torn T-shirts. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | ‘Killing Time in Las Vegas’ in Killing Time in Las Vegas [ebook] He and his Jock buddies used to ride me, bitch-slapping me and calling me Hom’-Boy. | |
| Dirtbag, Massachusetts 67: Surrounded by superjocks, I began to obsess over my body. |
4. (US campus) a politically conservative, white, middle-class young man.
| N.Y. Times 12 May 4:13: Some students and faculty members [...] smear all anti-strike students with the blanket label of ‘jocks’. | |
| Indep. Rev. 2 July 12: That tranche of alienated youngsters [...] will – ironically – see the jocks and prom queens triumph over them. |
5. (US campus) as ext. of sense 3, a devoted and diligent student, e.g. math jock, computer jock.
| et al. CUSS 145: Jock [...] A person who does well academically. | |
| Powder 285: Some overheated company jock would come running in with spectacular good news. | |
| Times (London) 12 Apr. 2/7: An American ‘shock-jock’, has been suspended from his show on CBS Radio [...] after calling members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team ‘nappy-headed hos’. |
6. (US) a stupid, unimaginative person, a nerd.
| Cogan’s Trade (1975) 54: Construction jocks, that’s all there is [...] three or four of them, sitting in their cars. | |
| Observer Mag. 13 June 59: The jock [...] reported for swerving dangerously and littering on a motorway. | |
| Graffiti Subculture xi: Jock: A sycophant or wannabe. |
7. see jocker n.1 (3)
In derivatives
(US) ostentatiously masculine / heterosexual.
| ‘Be My Alibi’ in ThugLit Sept. [ebook] [W]hat jocked-out straight guy would think to pretend he’s batting for the other team? |
sporty, ostentatiously ‘masculine’.
| Cruisers: Checkmate 51: I didn’t like Mr. Weinstein [...] He was a gym teacher and kind of jocky. | |
| OG Dad 53: Dr Tiny’s partners, who, while doubtless great guys, have all the jocky, golden boy swagger of Texas high school quarterbacks. |
In compounds
(US campus) a student who majors in physical education.
| ‘Terms Used in a Men’s Dormitory’ in AS XLII:4 229: jock major, n.phr. Any male student majoring in physical education. |
(US) the penis.
| in Riggio Diaries (1982) 377: Each had to do a stunt and he who failed had to produce his jock-peice [sic]. |
(US) a fungal infection of the genital area, common amongst atghletes and stimulated by steam rooms, e.g. gymns, laundries.
| Cat Man 123: [S]tanding there where the townies would like to stand and [...] scratching their jock itch and having nosebleeds. | |
| Meanwhile, Back at the Front (1962) 271: ‘Stop squirming, sergeant.’ ‘I’ve hot jock itch, colonel.’. | |
| Undergrowth of Lit. (1969) 75: Medical tips on getting rid of ‘jock itch, simple ringworm and crabs’. | |
| (con. 1970) 13th Valley (1983) 419: I, ah, got some cuts en some jock rot. | |
| Aussie Bull 38: [A] very bad case of the dreaded jock itch. | |
| Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 115: Chapped lips. Jock rot to the knees. | |
| Mad mag. July 46: Messing around with a porno queen. He could get every disease in the book! Except jock itch! | |
| Truth 227: ‘Talcum powder,’ he said. ‘Men?’ ‘Jock itch,’ said Birkerts. | |
| (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 116: I have a rash [...] It’s a bad jock itch and it’ll spread if I’m not careful. | |
| (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 265: ‘You shaved yourself?’ Holly asked. ‘Had to,’ he said. ‘Jock rash’. |
(US) a (presumably male) sports groupie who likes to hang around sports stars or well-muscled, macho men.
| (con. 1960s) Out of Their League 87: The players called guys like this ‘jock-sniffers.’ They were wealthy Syracusians who would contribute to the under-the-table fund for the privilege of rubbing shoulders with big-name football players [HDAS]. | |
| USA Today 12 Sept. 2A: His attorney calls him ‘a pitiful little jock-sniffer’ who enjoyed fraternizing with baseball stars [HDAS]. | |
| in Tale Maker 14: I once saw a jock-sniffer pay one hundred dollars once for a ride on the team bus. | |
| Gym Rat 134: He was, as they say, a jock sniffer. But a rich one! | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 350: Albie’s a jock-sniffer. He collects tough guys. |
1. (US) a stupid, insignificant fellow.
| World Anthol. 14: I get stuck with shithead Bobby Bellum, a real jockstrap. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 118: jock-strap [...] 2. a slow witted person; a dumbbell. | |
| Campus Sl. Nov. 5: jockitch – Also jockstrap, superjock. |
2. see sense 3 above.
In phrases
1. the pubic hair.
| Coll. Ballads and Songs (1975) I 167: Wi her black Jock and her belley so white. |
2. (also brown jock, grey jock) the vagina.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
to have sexual intercourse.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
to retire, to give up.
| Long Season 88: ‘One close shave like this,’ said [Sal Maglie], ‘and I hang up my jock’ . | |
| Campus Sl. Spring 3: hang up his jock – give up: He’s missed fifteen classes and failed all the tests [...] He might as well hang up his jock. | |
| Rude Behavior 164: I’ve always known my limitations. It’s time to hang up my jock’. | |
| Interview at ConcreteField.com 🌐 When the doctor told me I had to hang up my jock, I told him, ‘Forget it man, you think the Boz hangs up his jock for some moron with a bunch of fancy diplomas?’. |
(US) to overcome completely.
| (con. WWII) Damned Wear Wings 104: ‘He beat my jock off,’ stated Mike Sawyer quietly. ‘I never took any beating like that — before or since.’. | |
| (con. 1950s) Unit Pride (1981) 41: Shut your goddamn face before I knock your jock right off. | |
| Carlito’s Way 118: The electronics have knocked the jocks off us. | |
| ‘Football Wives, Football Widows’ Mike At Night at Sodbuster.com 🌐 It is a pure adrenaline rush when your guy hits the other guy so hard it knocks his jock off. It returns us to our core. |
(US) to be fooled.
| Current Sl. I & II 59: Lose [...] jock, v. to be fooled – normally used in sports. |
(US) pursuing, esp. of a woman sexually harassing a man.
| ‘Cracked Out’ 🎵 If you had it, every addict would be on your jock. | |
| Hip-Hop Connection Dec. 45: Jock means crotch, so if someone is on your ‘jock’ [...] they’re on your crotch [...] It’s a metaphor, meaning that someone is bothering you because of your status, biting your style, and generally hang off you. | |
| Teen Lingo: The Source for Youth Ministry 🌐 on his/her/my/your jock obsessed with a guy or girl ‘Billy, why them hoochies on your jock?’. |
In exclamations
(Aus.) dismissive phr. indicating a lack of sympathy with a complaining speaker.
| Urban. Dict. 23 Aug. 🌐 suffer in your jocks An Australian expression wishing misfortune on the recipient, similar to ‘eat shit and die’. | |
| Good Girl Stripped Bare 8: This is a Queensland expression, used in such circumstances. It’s up there with ‘suffer in your jocks’. |