talk jockey
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Invented in the 1970s.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
talk jockey (plural talk jockeys)
- (idiomatic) A host of a radio talk show.
- 1999, Allan Metcalf, David K. Barnhart, America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America[1]:
- In the 1970s, the term talk jockey was invented, meaning "host of a radio talk show," later shortened to the rhyming talk jock and instigating the coinage of shock jock for the host of a "shock" talk show of the 1990s.