| Noun | 1. | jockey - someone employed to ride horses in horse races | |
| 2. | jockey - an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus; "he's a truck jockey"; "a computer jockey"; "a disc jockey"manipulator, operator - an agent that operates some apparatus or machine; "the operator of the switchboard" | |
| Verb | 1. | jockey - defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceitbeat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" | |
| 2. | jockey - compete (for an advantage or a position) | |
| 3. | jockey - ride a race-horse as a professional jockey | |