jockey
n. 赛马骑师, 驾驶员, 操作工 vt. 骗, 瞒, 驾驶, 移动 vi. 当赛马的骑师
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1.
One who rides racehorses competitively.
骑师
骑手
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2.
That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire
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An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
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A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
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A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
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A prostitute's client.
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A rapist.
爱尔兰 俚语
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1.
To ride (a horse) in a race.
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To jostle by riding against.
They were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.
I love jockeying that motorcycle through heavy traffic.
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To maneuver (something) by skill; especially, to do so for one's advantage.
They're all jockeying for promotion.
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To cheat or trick.
I've been jockeyed into doing work for which I get no credit.
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The word is by origin a diminutive of jock, the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name John, which is also used generically for "boy" or "fellow" (compare Jack, Dick), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's Richard III. v. 3, 304. Equivalent to jock + -ey. In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp", whence the verb to jockey, "to outwit" or "to do" a person out of something. The current meaning of a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670.
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