jockocrat

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

jock +‎ -o- +‎ -crat

Noun[edit]

jockocrat (plural jockocrats)

  1. One who is jockocratic.
    • 1989, Bill Kauffman, Every Man a King, page 124:
      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?"
    • 1997, Janice Chernekoff, Writing and Reading with Respect to Difference, page 84:
      She accuses Norman Mailer, in an interview, of being a "professional jockocrat" (102).
    • 2000, Susan Birrell, Mary G. McDonald, Reading Sport: Critical Essays on Power and Representation, page 62:
      Simpson joined the boys on ABC telecasts quite early in his career, very much as both a jockocrat and a black voice.