See jock in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1977 April 16, \"Hartford Radio Show Axed\", in Gay Community News, page 6, quoting Eric Gordon",
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"ref": "2010, Stephen B. McSwain, The Enoch Factor: The Sacred Art of Knowing God, page 95:",
"text": "As a teenager, I laid down the sword and decided I wanted to be a disc jockey. […] I'd sit outside the studio and watch with envy and admiration as the jocks performed in the small room on the other side of the soundproof window […]",
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"ref": "1881, Ben Preston, Dialect and Other Poems, page 19:",
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