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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.

Mock


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
  • (v. t.) To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
  • (v. t.) To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.
  • (v. i.) To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.
  • (n.) An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
  • (n.) Imitation; mimicry.
  • (a.) Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So is the mock courtroom promising “justice and fairness”.
  • (2) Infants were habituated to models posing either prototypically positive displays (e.g., happy expressions) or positive expression blends (e.g., mock surprise).
  • (3) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
  • (4) The method correlated well with a radio-enzymatic assay for mock unknown sera (r = 0.981).
  • (5) Uptake of 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosyl-E-5-(2-bromovinyl)uracil (BV-araU) into herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)- and 2 (HSV-2)-infected cells was elevated about 190 to 40 times, compared with that into mock-infected human embryo lung fibroblast cells.
  • (6) Arsenal had the game in their pocket and the Welshman was having such a nightmare - he missed the target with a far-post volley in the second half - that the Arsenal fans were mocking him with chants of 'Give it to Giggsy'.
  • (7) A series of experiments performed with the two immuneprecipitation techniques, reducing or nonreducing electrophoretic conditions, and addition of preformed mock BA-1 immuneprecipitate to BA-1-Sepharose immuneprecipitates convincingly demonstrated that the previously described 55 and 65 kilodalton components were artifacts caused by co-migration of CD24 with IgG and IgM heavy chains, respectively.
  • (8) His stencils, skewed perspective and wit are recognizable enough to be mocked in the New Yorker .
  • (9) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
  • (10) Social media has seized on the story, turning the Eastern Washington University’s professor of African studies into a figure vilified and mocked for cultural appropriation in the midst of fraught debates over transgender identity and police shootings of black people.
  • (11) Another was a mock-up of a speeding ticket for Mr G Bale, Campeón de Copa, for overtaking recklessly, crossing a continuous white line.
  • (12) This is a chancellor who has produced a budget for hedge fund managers more than for small businesses.” Corbyn made a point of mocking some of the chancellor’s grand rhetoric of recent years.
  • (13) During Nicolas Sarkozy's unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign she was mocked for not knowing the price of an underground train ticket (she said €4 instead of €1.70).
  • (14) But he mocked Mitchell when he told the BBC Sunday Politics: "He's never used it in my presence, but then again I'm very proud myself to be a pleb."
  • (15) We evaluated the stroke work developed by these SMVs at afterloads of 30 mm Hg and 80 mm Hg in vivo, using a mock circulation device.
  • (16) But it accused South Park of having mocked the prophet, and cited Islamic scholars who ruled that "whoever curses the messenger of Allah must be killed".
  • (17) The Iraqi government needs to “mock and disprove” Islamic State’s online propaganda more effectively and more quickly Malcolm Turnbull has told an elite audience in Washington, saying he will raise the problem when he meets US president Barack Obama.
  • (18) But that aside, I have to disagree with what, I think, is Mr Hitchens' point about fashion: that in order to prevent disasters such as 70s style returning, we should always dress with one eye on how future generations will mock us.
  • (19) On STFU, Parents , a blog that "mocks examples of parental overshare", photographs of a child's vomit ("This is what I had to clear up today!")
  • (20) Their story involves a fraudster who posed as their builder, set up a copycat email address and even managed to mock up an incredibly realistic fake invoice.