(n.) A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(2) With respect to Sir Jimmy, those who proclaim the age of the train rarely get it right.
(3) A further 19 hospitals are to be investigated over their links to allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile , the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt has said.
(4) "Among them are Mark and Jackie Barden, whose youngest son, Daniel, was killed in the shooting; Nicole Hockley, who lost her son Dylan; and Jimmy Greene, who lost his daughter Ana."
(5) Hopefully there can be some really great performances which will try to blow away the shadow that programme has caused.” But Kilty will face a strong field in the men’s 100m that includes five athletes who have gone under the 10 second barrier in 2015, including the Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut, the American Mike Rodgers and the evergreen Kim Collins.
(6) There seems to be unanimous political support,” said Jimmy Morales, Miami Beach city manager.
(7) And she met Jimmie Miller, better known later as the folk singer Ewan MacColl, who became her husband.
(8) He also established himself as a regular fixture on BBC TV's Top of the Pops, having been appointed as one of the original four presenters in 1964, alongside Jacobs, Pete Murray and Jimmy Savile.
(9) Was it Jimmy Goldsmith [the late financier] who said there is no such thing as a hostile takeover?
(10) The BBC has spent more than £5m of licence fee payers' money so far on internal investigations and inquiries relating to the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal.
(11) The BBC has become embroiled in a row with one of its longest-serving radio presenters on the day in which the broadcaster was heavily criticised by an independent inquiry for the way it had allowed stars like Jimmy Savile to abuse women and children for nearly 50 years.
(12) The extra attacker had been Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and he should have put Chelsea 2-1 in front in the 78th minute.
(13) Perhaps the recession will finally put the kibosh on all this vulgar Jimmy Choo-ing and Vera Wang-ing.
(14) In discussing the role of the United States in world politics, President Jimmy Carter described the changes in Europe as it prepares for unification into one economic bloc; the deteriorating conditions in the third world; the impact of the recent changes in communist countries; and the persistence of regional wars and civil disputes.
(15) He recalls, with admiration, the late Jimmy Reid , one of the leaders of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders eight-month work-in in 1971-72 – after a Conservative government initially refused to give the company, which had a full order book, a bridging loan to secure its future.
(16) From Springsteen to Jimmy Barnes, is any rocker safe from rightwingers?
(17) The BBC will also publish an independent assessment of its child protection measures in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, which led to the resignation of the previous director general, George Entwhistle, in 2012.
(18) A secret 10-day emergency process has culminated in the appointment of Royal Opera House chief executive Lord (Tony) Hall to the £450,000-a-year job of running the BBC , as the corporation turns to a former veteran to help begin the process of recovering from the Jimmy Savile and Newsnight crises.
(19) In his early career, Pharo said, he was sued by paedophile Jimmy Savile.
(20) He was forced to fly home from England's Euro 2012 camp in Poland last month following the death of his 49-year-old father Jimmy from throat cancer.
Jock
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
(2) The ghastliness of this American shock jock, who, though still obscure to most Britons, is said to be the third most popular radio host in the States, perhaps explains why news of his continued exclusion from the UK was greeted last week with utter indifference.
(3) However, by 1994 the increasingly restless veteran jock was lured away again to Capital, where he could be heard crashing his way through Pick of the Pops Take Three at weekends, and to Virgin Radio, which took up his rock show.
(4) Jock Duncan, UK high commissioner in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, observed the arrival of the Pahlavi entourage aboard a chartered Air Maroc 747 jet.
(5) Even to the end he was being watched like a hawk, his every move and utterance scrutinised for disloyalty or plotting or insurrection, the shock jocks attacking him and blaming him for everything (on Tuesday Ray Hadley said he was up himself because of the way he wears his shirt).
(6) Hillary’s health hoax Most of the recent flurry stems directly from InfoWars, a conspiracy-fueled political site run by shock jock Alex Jones that funds itself partly through the sale of supplies necessary for doomsday prepping such as bulk vitamins and a year’s worth of long-life food.
(7) (Anyone notice how the radio jocks were well armed on Thursday morning with lists of past Labor trangressions?)
(8) With the normal seats stowed away, the Jocks – as the men are known – arranged themselves on the floors of the helicopters, legs tucked around the man in front of them and the bulky rifles, rocket launchers, radios and other kit.
(9) The four-parter, starring Max Beesley as a radio shock jock who has a crisis in his personal life, had 5.5 million viewers and a 22% share last night between 9pm and 10pm.
(10) They found that among dirts (problem-prone youth), regulars (average youth), hot-shots (good social or academic performers), and jocks (athletes), youth most likely to smoke were dirts and hot-shots.
(11) The political crisis has come about after the murder of ex-IRA prisoner Kevin McGuigan whom mainstream republicans blamed for killing former Belfast IRA commander Gerard “Jock” Davison back in May.
(12) The 42-year-old film-maker also gave an interview on Monday on shock jock Howard Stern's radio show in which he spoke about sexual conquests, masturbation, oral sex, his genitalia, the erotic habits of Hollywood moguls and his supposed habit of sending potential partners to his doctor to be checked for sexually transmitted diseases before he sleeps with them.
(13) Worldly-wise but digi-ignorant, the Vaughn-Wilson jock explosion throw in their lot with the socially maladjusted nerdly-wise virgins and soon enough, with the help of code-writing lessons for the oldies and lap dances for the virgin-geeks, they all learn to get along.
(14) For the second day running , Google Translate hasn't been able to cope with the gnomic utterances of Jock Wallace.
(15) wonders Greig Aitken, raising the possibility that Fabio Capello and the late, great Jock Wallace have more in common than was previously thought.
(16) If I could launch just one experiment, it may well be that I temporarily banish all straight men from the planet for six months (don't worry – I would send you to planet Jock where you could drive around on quad bikes or in Porsches, and in the evening there would be poker and beer), and see if this peaceful utopia occurred.
(17) Downing Street was irritated with Fox when he announced in June that Sir Jock Stirrup would be standing down as chief of the defence staff.
(18) In the US, there are the #ProudBoys , a sort of baby-man movement created for failed jocks who need constant reassurance that daddy loves them.
(19) Adams said it was up to the PSNI and not politicians to investigate the McGuigan murder and the previous killing of ex-IRA man Gerard “Jock” Davison.
(20) This is like entertainment but it’s scary because of the anger and aggression.” The appearance came as it emerged Trump had made similarly crude comments about his relationships with women in a series of interviews with the US “shock jock” Howard Stern.