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jockey

jockey

noun JOH-kee Rare
Animals & Nature Farm Animals

Origin: English 'jockey'

Usage Note

Jockey is borrowed directly from English and refers to a professional horse rider in races. In French it is masculine in grammatical gender (un jockey). The plural is jockeys. The word is also used in compounds such as jockey de disc (disc jockey, DJ), though DJ is far more common in practice.

Examples

"Le jockey a guidé son cheval vers la victoire."

Natural Translation

The jockey guided his horse to victory.

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