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There are 18 different meanings of Jock.

Jock Disambiguation
Winston Churchill
45 products, approx. 508 pages
Jock was the name of Winston Churchill's cat
Jockstrap
1 product, approx. 9 pages
a shortening of jockstrap (type of male underwear often used by sportsmen)
Jock Stein
1 product, approx. 7 pages
Jock Stein - Celtic FC manager (1965-78), a football club in Scotland, and regarded by many as one of the greatest managers the game has ever seen. A gentleman important for much more than just sport, the impact he had socially can never be understated.
Shock jock
1 product, approx. 5 pages
Shock jock, a disk jockey known for making off-colour comments on-air
Jockey
2 products, approx. 3 pages
Jockey was originally a diminutive of Jock.
Jock (subculture)
1 product, approx. 3 pages
Jock (subculture), an athlete.
Jock of the Bushveld
1 product, approx. 2 pages
Jock of the Bushveld Book by South African author Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, telling of FitzPatrick's travels with his dog Jock during the 1880s
Hamish Macbeth
1 product, approx. 2 pages
in fiction, Wee Jock was the dog owned by Hamish Macbeth.
Jock (comics)
1 product, approx. 1 pages
Jock (comics), a British comic book artist
The Jocks and the Geordies
1 product, approx. 1 pages
The Jocks and the Geordies, a Dandy comic strip
Perry Lang
1 product, approx. 1 pages
Jocks (film), a 1987 film starring Perry Lang
John of Hazelgreen
1 product, approx. 0 pages
John of Hazelgreen, ditto
A jock, by most accepted standards of the stereotype (if one is American), is an individual - usually a tall, physically fit, male in his late teens or early twenties - who is well-known for his athletic abilities (This definition is hardly recognised outside of the United States of America and Canada). Jocks are more widely recognized in certain team sports, such as basketball, football, American football, and other physically demanding sports. The term "jock" can be used pejoratively, neutrally, or even complimentarily. The pejorative use refers to an individual whose awareness of his own athletic abilities (or possible lack thereof) gives him the appearance of conceit, real or not to the observer (and in this sense the words "musclehead" and "musclebrain" are sometimes used); and as a result, jocks are often regarded as bullies to their peers, especially those who are not athletically inclined or don't play sports in general. Most famously, the targets of bullying by "jocks" are "nerds" - as popularized by movies such as Revenge of the Nerds - given the idea that the athletically inclined and the intellectually inclined are polar opposites and that the traits each stereotyped group exhibit cannot coexist peacefully.
A pejorative term for a Scottish Soldier (like an English Tommy) and used as a nickname by such units as the British 9th (Scottish) Division, the "Jocks".
Jock the New Engine, a locomotive on the fictional Arlesdale Railway in The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry
Jock, Paul Denton's friend and JC Denton's black helicopter pilot in Deus Ex.
Jock series albums by Tommy Boy records is a popular superseries of albums split into subseries like Jock Jams, Jock Rock. However, Slam Jams is part of the superseries abeit omission of "Jock" in the name.



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