jocks
- 1Plural of jock.
Gym class was a nightmare for anyone who wasn't one of the jocks.
He packed two clean jocks and his skates in the hockey bag.
Note
One regular plural serves every meaning of jock, from young athletes and sports fans to disc jockeys and athletic supporters. Only context tells them apart: jocks on the bench are people, while jocks in a kit bag are gear. The same spelling also belongs to a separate word, the term for men's briefs, shortened from jockey shorts.
- 2Men's briefs, the close-fitting style of underpants.
Don't answer the door in your jocks, mate. Put some shorts on.
He packed a towel, a spare shirt and three pairs of jocks for the weekend away.
Similarbriefs, underpants, undies
Note
The word is cut down from jockey shorts, and like shorts and briefs it only comes in the plural: a pair of jocks, clean jocks, never a jock. It is Australian slang of the household kind rather than a rude word, at home when teasing someone for lounging on the couch in their jocks.
jocks is a form of jock
jock, noun: A young male athlete, up to and including college age. Full entry
- Forms
- jockjocks plural
- Spelling
- jock → jocks: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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Origin
Shortened from jockey shorts.