(n.) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
(v. t.) " To jostle by riding against one."
(v. t.) To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer.
(v. i.) To play or act the jockey; to cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) As demonstrated here, a 2.23 kb DNA fragment from the region of jockey encoding the putative reverse transcriptase was stably introduced into an expression system under inducible control of the Escherichia coli lac regulatory elements.
(2) The extent of suppression increases, depending on the orientation of the jockey in mdg4 up to the point, when su(Hw) alleles known as recessive become semi-dominant.
(3) All mutations containing mdg4 with the jockey (ctMRpN) are suppressed by a classic suppressor su(Hw)2 and two new alleles obtained in this work.
(4) And what does this continual jockeying over the leadership – which is not restricted to the ALP or federal politics – say about the wider Australian political landscape?
(5) At 39, McCoy is long past the sort of age at which most jump jockeys retire.
(6) The panel has also prompted fierce behind-the-scenes jockeying between the NSA and its critics surrounding the scope of its highest-profile recommendation : ending the NSA’s collection of data on every phone call made in the United States.
(7) The existence of a large number of jockey copies with a deletion in the second frame may indicate that they can use reverse transcriptase in trans.
(8) Outside the D. melanogaster group jockey was detected only in the distantly related species Drosophila funebris.
(9) The jockey polymerase demonstrates RNA-directed and DNA-directed DNA polymerase activities, but lacks detectable RNase H, has a temperature optimum at 26 degrees C, requires Mg2+ or Mn2+ as a cofactor and is inactivated by sulfhydryl reagent.
(10) As seen from in situ hybridization analysis, transitions to the normal phenotype correlate, as a rule, with the excision of mdg4 and the jockey from the cut locus.
(11) After a period on Radio Luxembourg he was offered the freelance job of disc jockey on the radio programme Housewives' Choice, on which Jacobs had to play record requests and punctuate them with anodyne chat.
(12) Vinterberg's version stars Carey Mulligan as headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, while Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenarts play the contrasting suitors who jockey for her attention.
(13) Some analysts suspect political players have deliberately leaked information amid the jockeying for position; and that details – such as a claim that the two young women were wholly or semi-naked – may have been embellished for maximum damage.
(14) Satellite trucks sprouted around the square, and television reporters lined up, jockeying for position with their backs to the flag.
(15) Republicans were in the grip of an intense power battle on Wednesday as rival factions in in the House of Representatives, which the party controls, jockeyed to replace the outgoing majority leader Eric Cantor.
(16) And not like any of this BS remote-controlled bombing where we only admit to it two weeks later, after photos surface of some remote-control jockey from the 38th Chairborne precision-striking a Yemeni funeral.
(17) But the Brits announcement has not come in isolation; it follows the collapse in the last two years of three dance music magazines (Muzik, Ministry and Jockey Slut), the news that London superclub Ministry of Sound's revenues have fallen by more than a third since 2001, and, most recently, the commercial failure of the latest albums from Britain's two biggest dance acts, Fatboy Slim and the Prodigy.
(18) Gavin Venter, a former jockey who worked for Steenkamp's father, said: "Without a doubt he's a danger to the public.
(19) The high degree of similarity between the D. melanogaster and the D. funebris jockey and the absence of jockey from other sibling species of the D. funebris group provide evidence for the horizontal transmission of jockey into D. funebris.
(20) In the past month the Tories and Labour have been jockeying for position over their commitment to creating more accessible online government services, broadband and also public access to non-personal government data, with the Tories saying they would introduce a "right to public data" bill to let people request and receive public datasets, publishing details of government contracts worth more than £25,000 online, encouraging use of free open-source software in government development, and encouraging telecoms companies to offer superfast broadband.
Jokey
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Users discover that devices are suddenly answering back or misbehaving before the revelation that a jokey ghost has been placed in the machine.
(2) I started chatting with owner Charlie MacDonald about who would take over from Donnie in a jokey way at first, but then, before I knew it I had left my job and joined Stag as Donnie's replacement.
(3) Michel explained: "My wife is English and Spanish so … " Jay suggested to Michel he understood "the value of human interaction, whether it's by jokey text message, warm text message, mobile conversation or face-to-face meeting.
(4) Also, in South Africa, as in Australia, another huge Nando's market, Nando's is marketed as a jokey brand.
(5) Despite their jokey exterior, most had big things on their mind, fretting over marriages and babies, breakups and single life; less "grossout" comedy than "freakout".
(6) Casino Royale is arguably his best book, and when eventually it was filmed with Daniel Craig in 2006 (there had been a sad, jokey, non-canonical version in 1967), it was unquestionably the closest the movie series has come to capturing the spirit of Fleming's early work.
(7) Green and Wallace used to have a long-running jokey argument along these lines, about whether Wallace should allow his "inner sap" into his prose.
(8) He did his best to keep it informal and jokey but he was finding it harder and harder to pick someone out who would ask him a tame gimme.
(9) Some jokey conspiracy theories did the rounds and one YouTube user criticised Hadfield's interpretation of the song as being overly literal (arguably correct, but a trifle harsh, considering).
(10) In comparison, mine was comparatively mild and merely slightly jokey."
(11) He has also followed his father in being somewhat "jokey" in person while retaining a set of "sternly puritanical" principles.
(12) Panti Bliss, aka Rory O’Neill – the drag queen, gay icon and now national treasure who was the yes campaign’s ace card in the referendum – tells a wonderful story about meeting Madonna: “Her default setting is jokey cunt.” His dress is fabulous: a glitter ball stuffed in a Coca-Cola bottle.
(13) He is often portrayed as the classic "serious clown" whose intense, driven private personality is at odds with his public image as a jokey, happy-go-lucky talkshow host.
(14) The songs are celebrated for the cheerful candour of their intimacy, with the 2009 single Not Fair bemoaning an ex-boyfriend's premature ejaculation, while Alfie, a hit from her 2006 debut album, was a jokey hymn to her irritation with her stoner baby brother Alfie .
(15) Posting a jokey picture of herself pretending to throttle Cowell, she wrote: "GUESS WHAT!!
(16) 8.45am GMT IDF jokes on Twitter go down badly The IDF is attracting criticism for the jokey tone of updates by some of its members on Twitter, amid the bloodshed.
(17) In his jokey quips and famous "top 10" lists Letterman and his team of writers have rarely pulled their punches.
(18) The Batman movies of the 1990s were camp and jokey; the Dark Knight movies, appearing a decade later, were not.
(19) Silver!” chips in Ringo, in a jokey stage-whisper.
(20) His classroom feels like a teenage bedroom, with a "No diving" sign by the window and various jokey posters on the packed walls, including a laminated teabag (an in-joke with a previous class) and a shrine to a former head girl who bagged 11 A*s. It turns out Burton, 30, really was once in a "rubbish band" – a subject of much fascination among the pupils – but has taught at Thornhill Community Academy in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, since he qualified as a teacher.