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jockocratic en · ADJ

Etymology

From jock + -o- + -cratic.

Meanings

1. Characterized by an excessive veneration of sport and athletes.
   • The miracle of God having intervened in the football game that brought Bonnie Face to religion was ascribed to this jockocratic triumvirate having sent the divine wind from Heaven that blew the football far enough to clear the goalpost by the few inches it needed to score that winning point. 2013, Barney Vincelette, The Autistic Comedy:
   • Just when I'm asking myself if it's worth it to rock the boat and wondering if I should compromise, something will happen to keep me going. Like one year I got an award from a women's group for, "exposing the jockocratic values of society." 1984, Jim Bouton, Ball Four Plus Ball, page 410:
   • Indeed, Virginia Tech is in no way unique: it embodies, as Tim Luke explains in this volume, a heritage of violence: in the coercive coherence of the community of Hokie Nation, the nexus of campus and regional cultures with the jockocratic dominance of football (what Luke called "gridiron Gemeinschaft")—and the sanctimoniously sadistic exclusion of anyone who doesn't fit in to the narrowly circumscribed community. 2008, Ben Agger, Timothy W. Luke, There is a Gunman on Campus: Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech:

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