Definition of Jockey

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Jockey

A professional rider of horses in races.

A dealer in horses; a horse trader.

A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.

" To jostle by riding against one."

To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer.

To play or act the jockey; to cheat.

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Jockey Quotations

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
Henny Youngman

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
Fran Lebowitz

I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.
Lawrence Welk

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.
Tom T. Hall

Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.
Davy Jones

At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.
Tim Conway

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
Leon Uris

Jockey Translations

jockey in French is jockey
jockey in Swedish is jockey

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