Jock"ey , v. i. To play or act the jockey; to cheat.
Jock"ey , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jockeyed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Jockeying.] 1. "
To jostle by riding against one."
Johnson. 2. To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as,
to jockey a customer.
Jock"ey (?), n.;
pl. Jockeys (#). [Dim. of Jack, Scot. Jock; orig., a boy who rides horses. See 2d Jack.]
1. A professional rider of horses in races.
Addison. 2. A dealer in horses; a horse trader. Macaulay.
3. A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
Quotes From Classical Literature on 'jockey'You can hear pronunciation of the quotes if you click on  . The sound files tend to be pretty big.
 announce their approach to Donald Bean Lean, as the arrival of a
SIDIER ROY ( red soldier) might otherwise be a disagreeable
surprise.' And without waiting for an answer, in jockey phrase,
he trotted out, and putting himself to a very round pace, was out
of sight in an instant.
Waverley was now left to his own meditations, for his attendant
with the battle- axe spoke very little English. They were
" We' re a- going to make a lady of her," he said, drawing the child' s
shy face against his gaudy waistcoat, and running his coarse hand
through her pretty curls; " and she shall marry a jockey when she
grows up."
After supper he brewed some excellent whisky punch, and insisted
upon the old lady joining us, which she eventually did with much
coughing and protestation; but I noticed that she finished the
Hereupon, the negro, grumbling out an apology, went up to his
master, opened his mouth with the knowing air of a horse- jockey , and
adjusted therein a somewhat singular- looking machine, in a very
dexterous manner, that I could not altogether comprehend. The
alteration, however, in the entire expression of the General' s
countenance was instantaneous and surprising. When he again spoke,
his voice had resumed all that rich melody and strength which I had
ten or fifteen knots.
" In heavy weather you jockey her with the screws as well," says
Captain Hodgson, and, unclipping the jointed bar which divides
the engine- room from the bare deck, he leads me on to the floor.
Here we find Fleury' s Paradox of the Bulk- headed Vacuum-- which we
accept now without thought-- literally in full blast. The three
engines are H. T.& T. assisted-vacuo Fleury turbines running from
associates were a blind old lady and an evangelical divine, could
have nothing in common with the haughty, ardent, and voluptuous
nobleman, the horse- jockey , the libertine, who fought Lord
Ligonier in Hyde Park, and robbed the Pretender of his queen. But
though the private lives of these remarkable men present scarcely
any points of resemblance, their literary lives bear a close
analogy to each other. They both found poetry in its lowest state
of degradation, feeble, artificial, and altogether nerveless.
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