2. Verb. (third-person singular of jockey) ¹
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Definition of Jockeys
1. jockey [v] - See also: jockey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jockeys
Literary usage of Jockeys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"... the musters of the trainers and the jockeys ; now it too often happens that
the trainers arc the masters of the owners, and the jockeys masters of both. ..."
2. Curiosities of natural history by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1868)
"... the shouting of the people to clear the course for the jockeys; Priam, ...
by jockeys who wore spurs (for there is a spur in Mr. Lawson's museum, ..."
3. The English Turf: A Record of Horses and Courses by Charles Richardson (1901)
"... platers —The best jockeys of the day—As good as their predecessors—Their chief
faults—The lesson of Sloan—The American seat—Owners and American jockeys. ..."
4. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"... riding on the box of the Hampstead, Highgate, and Barnet coaches, and associating
with "ostlers, pot-boys, horse-jockeys, money-lenders, pawnbrokers, ..."
5. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Such a marching of Intellect is distinctly of the spavined kind; what the jockeys
call 'all action and no go.' Or, at best, if we examine well, ..."
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