What does jockey mean?
Jockey means One who rides racehorses competitively..
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/ˈd͡ʒɒki/ · noun
One who rides racehorses competitively..
And the crime for which Nuncomar was about to die was regarded by them in much the same light in which the selling of an unsound horse, for a sound price, is regarded by a Yorkshire jockey.
They were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.
I love jockeying that motorcycle through heavy traffic.
They're all jockeying for promotion.
This particularly obtains in all Parliamentary affairs. Whether the business in hand be to get a man in, or get a man out, or get a man over, or promote a railway, or jockey a railway, or what else, nothing is understood to be so effectual as scouring nowhere in a violent hurry—in short, as taking cabs and going about.
I've been jockeyed into doing work for which I get no credit.
Use jockey when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Jockey means One who rides racehorses competitively..
Common synonyms include prostitute's client, chicane, screw, chouse.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
And the crime for which Nuncomar was about to die was regarded by them in much the same light in which the selling of an unsound horse, for a sound price, is regarded by a Yorkshire jockey.
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