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the word "jockstrap"
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The work jock strap came from the old days when roads in New England was made of cobble stone. When the bikes they rode had the really big front wheel and the little back wheel. The riders were called bicycle jockeys. The cobble stone used to hurt the scrotum of the riders because they didn’t have any support so they invented the Bicycle Jockey Strap. That is where the Bike company was started and the ended up shortneing the name to Jock Strap. That is how it was back in 1800 something. Forget the actual date I can look it up if you really need to know. Hope that helps. Derek
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When I was a kid the word "jockstrap" was considered as somewhat off color slang, the polite term was athletic supporter. Isn’t the term "jock" for an athlete a relatively recent usage? (ie last 20 years or so?)
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I got the impression from a couple of statements my mother made once that when -she- was in college (during WWII – 1942??1945) that a fraternity was called a ‘jockstrap house’ when it had a lot of athletes in it. I got the impression that this was one of those names used only when the professors and house mothers weren’t in hearing distance. Maybe called a ‘jock house’ because of all the jocks on the clothes line? –Questar On 5 Dec 2000 04:24:10 GMT, hanco…@bbs.cpcn.com (neither Lisa nor – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Jeff) wrote: >When I was a kid the word "jockstrap" was considered as somewhat off >color slang, the polite term was athletic supporter. >Isn’t the term "jock" for an athlete a relatively recent usage? (ie >last 20 years or so?)
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In article <90hqla$…@netaxs.com>, hanco…@bbs.cpcn.com (neither Lisa nor Jeff) wrote: > When I was a kid the word "jockstrap" was considered as somewhat off > color slang, the polite term was athletic supporter. > Isn’t the term "jock" for an athlete a relatively recent usage? (ie > last 20 years or so?)
Oh, no … Even in the ’60s, athletes were called jocks. (As a grade school student, I read the words "Jocks are cool" that someone had spray-painted on the high school sidewalk.) — Jockwoof <jockwoof at infernosoft dot com> Director of Physical Education Infernosoft: Putting the No in Innovation. "No pain, no Unix." Jocks: http://www.infernosoft.com/community/hockey/jock Hockey Gear: http://www.infernosoft.com/community/hockey/lockerroom.shtml
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The ONLY people I’ve know to use the term <athletic supporter> in conversation were so PRISSY they’d make Martha Stewart look like a Tiajuana bar hostess! And I’ve lived in many of the major population centres east to west and north to south. Even in writing, unless in some really strict academic journals <jockstrap> (with- or with-out hyphen!) seems more common usage. BTW I was completely blown away when at a rather formal gathering a 70-ish hat-adorned society matron began bemoaning her trials and tribulations trying to buy some new JOCKSTRAPS for her husband whose supply, she avowed, <must have been original WW2 issue> and stretched completely useless. She continued: << He refuses to get new ones, but it’s embarrassing to have those old rags hanging on the clothesline…>> Her complaint was that all the jocks she was able to find were chintzy and <UGLY>!!!! ;-))))) Later, privately, I slipped her a paper with the addresses of International Jock, and several other web-based suppliers. Judging from what I had seen of her exceptionally well-preserved husband, a good jock wld be a virtual necessity! ;-))) I hope he’s adjusted to what I’m sure is a plethora of designer-jocks judging from the thank-you note I received from madame! Aloha! CuppedBear! — ———- In article <90hqla$…@netaxs.com>, hanco…@bbs.cpcn.com (neither Lisa nor – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Jeff) wrote: > When I was a kid the word "jockstrap" was considered as somewhat off > color slang, the polite term was athletic supporter. > Isn’t the term "jock" for an athlete a relatively recent usage? (ie > last 20 years or so?)
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– ———- In article <mvvo2t00r6pe25hkn7phu1pag1hjj73…@4ax.com>, NoNo <N…@Nan.net> wrote: > Maybe called a ‘jock house’ because of all the jocks on the clothes > line? > –Questar >WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
err…. where did U say that <house> was……. droooooool!!!!!! CuppedBear! PS- see my post re <Where to find jockstraps>….
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The first time I heard the word "jock" used to refer to a male athlete was back in high school, and that was about 35 years ago. neither Lisa nor Jeff wrote: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> When I was a kid the word "jockstrap" was considered as somewhat off > color slang, the polite term was athletic supporter. > Isn’t the term "jock" for an athlete a relatively recent usage? (ie > last 20 years or so?)
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An amusing discussion is going on in the newsgroup uk.culture.language.english This is how language lovers are spreading the word about the jockstrap: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->>>My husband decided he wanted some new underpants, which >>>engendered a long discussion about the type he likes, and why he >>>likes them. >>>Later, during a long car journey, I was musing idly about them, like >>>you do, and thought of the word "Jockstrap". And wondered why it >>>was called that. I assume that the American use of "Jock" for athlete >>>stems from jockstrap, but why on earth did a Scottish first name >>>become used for an athletic support. I mean, wouldn’t Dick, Peter or >>>even Willy be better than Jock? >>I’d always assumed that "jock" (and "jockey") for "athlete" came >>first, and that a "jockstrap" was so called because it was worn by >>athletes. >According to Chambers: >The term ‘jock’ for athlete derives from ‘jockstrap’. ‘Jockstrap’ is a strap for the ‘jock’ which is dialect >for penis. >’Jockey’ is a diminutive of ‘Jock’, a boy. >> Hmm. >> There appears to be something very wrong with my priorities. >Take up fishing. ‘Jock Scott’ is a kind of artificial fly. >Why do females seem so obsessed with these things?