jockeynoun/ˈd͡ʒɒki/

• 1

  One who rides racehorses competitively.

• 2

  That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire

• 3

  An operator of some machinery or apparatus.

• 4

  datedA dealer in horses; a horse trader.

  • And the crime for which Nuncomar was about to die was regarded by them in much the same light in which the selling of an unsound horse, for a sound price, is regarded by a Yorkshire jockey.
• 5

  datedA cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.

• 6

  slangA prostitute's client.

• 7

  slangA rapist.

jockeyverb/ˈd͡ʒɒki/

• 1

  To ride (a horse) in a race.

• 2

  To jostle by riding against.

  • They were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.
  • I love jockeying that motorcycle through heavy traffic.
• 3

  To maneuver (something) by skill; especially, to do so for one's advantage.

  • They're all jockeying for promotion.
  • This particularly obtains in all Parliamentary affairs. Whether the business in hand be to get a man in, or get a man out, or get a man over, or promote a railway, or jockey a railway, or what else, nothing is understood to be so effectual as scouring nowhere in a violent hurry—in short, as taking cabs and going about.
• 4

  To cheat or trick.

  • I've been jockeyed into doing work for which I get no credit.