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jock-strap|ˈdʒɒkstræp| [f. jock3 + strap n.] 1. A supporter or protector for the male genitals, worn esp. by sportsmen; also (occas.), a cache-sexe.
1897U.S. Patent Office Index 27 Bennett, Charles F., Chicago, Ill. Combined jock-strap and suspensory. 1911T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring & Summer 179/2 Athletic Support. Sharp & Smith's Bike-Jock Strap, being made entirely of elastic. 1929T. Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel (1930) ii. xiv. 191 The checking of overcoats, evening wraps, jock-straps, and jewellery. 1933E. E. Cummings eimi 52 Do I seriously..seem to see your human mind squatting in your magic jockstrap, freely watching Hitchy Goomy Gitchie Koo (the sickest medicine-man of them all) turn your ailments into formulas? 1935New Statesman 14 Sept. 357/1 (Advt.), The Linia Belt, including a Linia Jock Strap. 1936H. Miller Black Spring 247 The night is cold but the queen is naked save for a jock-strap. 1947‘A. P. Gaskell’ Big Game 15, I had to undo my pants and look to see whether I'd put on my jock-strap. 1954Dancing Times Mar. 400 Articles for Sale. Jock straps for either sex in pink, white or black. 1960Guardian 23 Sept. 26/7 A Nubian chauffeur in a leopard⁓skin jockstrap. 1969Daily Tel. 7 Mar. 21/1 It is the first play in which I remember to have encountered an actor with a jockstrap which squeaks when pushed. 2. An athletic (as distinguished from an æsthetic or intellectual) man (esp. one at a university); a ‘hearty’. N. Amer. slang.
1956Amer. Speech XXXI. 192 A healthy, athletic young man addicted to sports may wince under the pointed jockstrap marine. 1963Ibid. XXXVIII. 169 A college athlete: jock (81), animal (32)... The full synecdoche itself, jockstrap, was also reported once. Hence ˈjock-strapped a.; ˈjock-strapper.
1960Spectator 23 Sept. 432 Even prints biographical notes on its jock-strapped heroes. 1967N. Mailer Cannibals & Christians i. 14 Scranton had none of the heft of a political jockstrapper like Goldwater. |