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jockocrat en · NOUN

Etymology

From jock + -o- + -crat.

Meanings

1. One who is jockocratic.
   • Now he felt a palm crack his back, and in the same swamp-inflected voice of his boyhood, the Great Hunt — jockocrat ruler of the Class of '78 — said, "Hey, Huuuuu-eeeee, how you doin' man?" 1989, Bill Kauffman, Every Man a King, page 124:
   • She accuses Norman Mailer, in an interview, of being a "professional jockocrat" (102). 1997, Janice Chernekoff, Writing and Reading with Respect to Difference, page 84:
   • Simpson joined the boys on ABC telecasts quite early in his career, very much as both a jockocrat and a black voice. 2000, Susan Birrell, Mary G. McDonald, Reading Sport: Critical Essays on Power and Representation, page 62:

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