Jock

Jock

Generic terms for people

* Jock (athlete), an athlete.
* A pejorative term for a Scottish Soldier (like an English Tommy) and used as a nickname by such units as the British 9th (Scottish) Division, the "Jocks".
* Used generically for 'the common man' (as John Doe).
* Jockey was originally a diminutive of Jock.
* Shock jock, a disk jockey known for making off-colour comments on-air.
* Jock is also a term used, either derogatively or as a term of endearment, for people from Scotland.

Individual people and characters commonly known by solely their given name "Jock"

* Jock Stein - Celtic FC manager (1965-78), a football club in Scotland
* Jock (comics), a British comic book artist
* Jock the New Engine, a locomotive on the fictional Arlesdale Railway in The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry
* Jock, Vincent Reis, an all-star sprinter
* Jock, Paul Denton's friend and JC Denton's black helicopter pilot in Deus Ex.
* Jock, a character in the 1955 Disney animated film Lady and the Tramp
* Jock Ewing, a Dallas character, J. R. Ewing
JR
's father.
* Jock the Pilot was Indy's pilot from Raiders of the Lost Ark

Animals

* Jock was the name of Winston Churchill's cat
* in fiction, Wee Jock was the dog owned by Hamish Macbeth.
* Jock of the Bushveld Book by South African author Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, telling of FitzPatrick's travels with his dog Jock during the 1880s
* Jock is a Scottish Terrier from the Disney film Lady and the Tramp.

Things known as Jocks or Jock

* a shortening of jockstrap (type of male underwear often used by sportsmen)
* a general term for male underwear, generally called a pair of 'jocks'.
* Jock series albums by Tommy Boy records is a popular superseries of albums split into subseries like Jock Jams, Jock Rock.
* Jock itch is an alternative name for a fungal infection of the groin region (tinea cruris).

In Media

* Jock o' the Side, a border ballad
* John of Hazelgreen, "ditto"
* Jocks (film), a 1987 film starring Perry Lang
*"The Jocks and the Geordies", a comic strip featuered in "The Dandy"


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