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Jock is a Scottish diminutive form of the forename "John"; It is also a nickname for someone of Scottish origin, as well as being the collective name for Scottish soldiers, collectively known as "the Jocks". It corresponds to Jack in England and Wales. In London the rhyming slang "sweaty" is used, deriving from "Sweaty sock - Jock". The name ...
Jock (given name), a list of people with the first name or nickname; Charles Jock (born 1989), American middle-distance runner; Duach Jock (born 1986), South Sudanese soccer player; Jock (cartoonist) (born 1972), British comic book artist Mark Simpson; Jock McIver, a stage name, along with Talbot O'Farrell, of English music hall performer ...
Harold Lloyd at the bottom of a pile on in the 1925 comedy film The Freshman, about a college student trying to become popular by joining the football team. In the United States and Canada, a jock is a stereotype of an athlete, or someone who is consumed by sports and sports culture, and does not take much interest in intellectual pursuits or other activities.
A jockstrap, also a jock (male), jill (female), strap, cup, groin guard, pelvic protector (female), supporter, or athletic supporter, is an undergarment for protecting the scrotum and penis or vulva during contact sports or other vigorous physical activity. This article deals chiefly with the genital protective sports gear designed for the male ...
Mark Simpson, known by the pen name Jock, is a Scottish cartoonist, best known for his work in 2000 AD, The Losers, [1] and more recently Batman [2] and Wolverine. [3] He is also known for Wytches by Image Comics .
Lieutenant Jock Lewes, co-founder of the SAS, 1940 – a portrait painted by Rex Whistler (at the time a fellow officer in the Welsh Guards). Lewes was born in Calcutta to a British father, chartered accountant Arthur Harold Lewes, and an Australian mother, Elsie Steel Lewes. The family moved to Australia and Lewes grew up at Bowral, New South ...
Davis and Mary Castle in TV's Stories of the Century (1954). Jim Davis (born Marlin Davis; August 26, 1909 – April 26, 1981) was an American actor, best known for his roles in television Westerns.
"Jock Tamson's bairns" is a Scots (and Northumbrian English) dialect version of "Jack (John) Thomson's children" but both Jock and Tamson in this context take on the connotation of Everyman. The Dictionary of the Scots Language gives the following definitions: Jock: (1) A generic term for a man, a male person.