Word: jockey
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...year after nasty spill, history's best woman jockey scores big again...
Phrases like these -- or worse -- will probably never enter the realm of polite discourse, and perhaps that is just as well. Still, some instances of slang can gain such acceptance that they become useful as colloquialisms and even enter Standard English over time -- for example, blizzard, disk jockey and gadget...
Students paid $40 per person to attend the event. Clad in formal wear, the undergraduates enjoyed a large wet bar and hors d'oeuvres ranging from sushi to cheese-filled dried pears. after the speeches, they danced to the sounds of a New York disc jockey...
...train has cut-proof, upholstered seats, graffiti-resistant interior and exterior and a computerized public address system featuring the voice of a Canadian disc jockey. The train also displays the next stop on a digital display panel...
Henry Louis Wallace was smooth -- very, very smooth. Listeners tuning into WBAW-FM in Barnwell, South Carolina, during the late evening hours four years ago responded positively to Wallace, a.k.a. "Night Rider," a silky-voiced disk jockey who favored urban contemporary music. Women, taken with his sweet smile, solicitous attitude and pleasant looks, trusted him all along. They invited him to their homes for dinner, watched while he cradled their babies in his arms, accepted his invitations to date...