Dictionary Entry
jockey
jockey is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A professional rider of horses in races. Face value is 22 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 22 · Words With Friends 24 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A professional rider of horses in races.
- 2noun
A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
- 3noun
A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
- 4transitive verb
" To jostle by riding against one."
- 5transitive verb
To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer.
- 6intransitive verb
To play or act the jockey; to cheat.
- 7noun
someone employed to ride horses in horse races
- 8noun
an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus
"he's a truck jockey"
"a computer jockey"
- 9verb
ride a racehorse as a professional jockey
- 10verb
defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- 11verb
compete (for an advantage or a position)
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