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JOCKEY
Definition of JOCKEY
noun
One who rides racehorses competitively.
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Where it comes from
The word is by origin a diminutive of jock, the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name John, which is also used generically for "boy" or "fellow" (compare Jack, Dick), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's Richard III. v. 3, 304. Equivalent to jock + -ey. In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp", whence the verb to jockey, "to outwit" or "to do" a person out of something. The current meaning of a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
JOCKEY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 61, 20 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 41 days.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
JOCKEY starts with J and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CEJKOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start JOCKEY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
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