Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice or tricks of jockeys; also, jockeys' talk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The practice of jockeys.
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- noun The practice or techniques of
jockeys ; the skill of riding a horse in a race.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bristed's _Five Years in an English University_, congenial in its setting forth of the Cantab's carnal delights and intellectual jockeyism; _The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman_, wherein one 'Cuthbert Bede, B.A.' has by 'numerous illustrations' of numerous dissipations, given as good an idea as is desirable of the
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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Rodney, in spite of his innate gentlemanhood, into more of mere jockeyism than either she or her father liked.
The Other Girls 1865
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Perhaps jockeyism originated with them, and even racing, at least in England.
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Perhaps jockeyism originated with them, and even racing, at least in England.
The Pocket George Borrow George Henry Borrow 1842
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Let their speeches and publications teem with wholesale slanders of our creed: the political jockeyism of these thimble-riggers, as in your own case, is too apparent!
Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors William Gannaway Brownlow 1841
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