Usually means: Rider in horse racing competitions.
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  1. jockey: Merriam-Webster
  2. jockey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Jockey, jockey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jockey: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jockey: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jockey, jockey: Wordnik
  7. jockey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jockey: Wiktionary
  9. jockey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jockey: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jockey: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Jockey, jockey: Dictionary.com
  13. jockey: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jockey: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Jockey (company), Jockey (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Jockey (m), jockey, jockey (de), jockey (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. jockey: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Jockey: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. jockey: FreeDictionary.org
  20. jockey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Jockey: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Jockey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. Jockey: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  24. jockey: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  25. jockey: Rhymezone
  26. jockey: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. jockey: Legal dictionary

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  1. jockey: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. jockey: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jockey, jockey, jockey, Jockey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Jockey, jockey: Urban Dictionary

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See jockeyed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who rides racehorses competitively.
noun:  That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire
noun:  (in combination) An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
noun:  (dated) A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
noun:  (dated) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
noun:  (UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
noun:  (Ireland, crime, slang) A rapist.
verb:  To ride (a horse) in a race.
verb:  To jostle by riding against.
verb:  To maneuver (something) by skill; especially, to do so for one's advantage.
verb:  To cheat or trick.

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