bench jockey
A player, coach or manager who verbally annoys and distracts opposition players and umpires from his team's dugout bench.
jockey
UK /ˈd͡ʒɒki/ US /ˈd͡ʒɑki/
noun 5verb 4
Collocations
8(noun.)
ADJ
champion, top | winning | apprentice | amateur | jump | stable
JOCKEY + VERB
ride (sth)
The winning jockey rode three horses in yesterday's race at the track.
win (sth)
A skilled jockey won the championship after years of hard training and dedication.
Definitions
noun
1
One who rides racehorses competitively.
2
That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire
3
An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
4
A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
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.
5
A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
verb
1
To ride (a horse) in a race.
2
To jostle by riding against.
They were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.
I love jockeying that motorcycle through heavy traffic.
3
To maneuver (something) by skill; especially, to do so for one's advantage.
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.
4
To cheat or trick.
I've been jockeyed into doing work for which I get no credit.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
desk jockey
One who spends their time seated at a desk; especially one who is more concerned with procedure, paperwork, or administration than with an ultimate goal or a practical consequence.
The production manager was annoyed because some desk jockey in the main office reassigned her staff without even consulting her.
talk jockey
A host of a radio talk show.
In the 1970s, the term talk jockey was invented, meaning "host of a radio talk show," later shortened to the rhyming talk jock and instigating the coinage of shock jock for the hos
bet the jockey, not the horse
One should invest based on the management team behind a venture, rather than on the product or service being sold.
bet on the jockey, not the horse
Alternative form of bet the jockey, not the horse.
Example Bank
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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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They were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.
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I love jockeying that motorcycle through heavy traffic.
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They're all jockeying for promotion.
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He is out and away the best jockey.
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Tom is a disc jockey.
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