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  • adjective Like a jock (dim-witted athletic person).

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jock +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • Toward that end, we get two characters who are little more than broad types--the smug, jockish alpha male who wins the auction on a golf course, and his friend, a henpecked family man who appears trapped in a far less affluent life of quiet desperation.

    Archive 2009-06-14 2009

  • He's tucked away on his tour bus, looking comfortably jockish in dark sweat pants and a football jersey.

    The World According To Garth 2008

  • And the ne plus ultra of jockish politicians must surely be the former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, who has completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon (2. 4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and a marathon) and climbed Mount Everest.

    Marathon Men 2005

  • And the ne plus ultra of jockish politicians must surely be the former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, who has completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon (2. 4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and a marathon) and climbed Mount Everest.

    Marathon Men 2005

  • The disastrous (former) boss of HMRC Dim Prawn 'Red' Dawn Primarolo has just been moved (sideways and downward) to a new job as Sec of State for Health in the jockish Junta.

    It's All Very Taxing... 2007

  • This beer mascot is a symbol of jockish virility, but would provide a spectacular coming-out line: New feelings ... brewing ... in ...

    Who's the Gay Simpson? 2004

  • This beer mascot is a symbol of jockish virility, but would provide a spectacular coming-out line: New feelings ... brewing ... in ...

    Who's the Gay Simpson? 2004

  • This beer mascot is a symbol of jockish virility, but would provide a spectacular coming-out line: New feelings ... brewing ... in ...

    Who's the Gay Simpson? 2004

  • Preview: All-terrain video camera made for jockish nerds and nerdy jocks

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Omar El Akkad 2011

  • Preview: All-terrain video camera made for jockish nerds and nerdy jocks

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Babad 2011

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