The word "jock" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is good at athletics, who is sports-minded, or who is socially popular. Example sentence: Johnny was the captain of the basketball team and the biggest jock in school.
In America, male body shapes will wax and wane – over a period of half a decade, they might go from the "jock" to something skinny and then creep back to the current vogue, the "swimmer's" body – that is, not such a meathead that you could beat anybody up, but not so lanky that you look pubescent.
Mr Burger will be joined for a back-to-back session with his fellow Norwegian, Telephones, whose sunny yet psychedelic productions have featured in the playlists of every house jock worth their salt lately.
In late September a video surfaced of Alan Jones, a Sydney radio "shock jock", belittling Ms Gillard's father, who had recently died, in a speech to the Liberal Club at the University of Sydney.
"Out of bounds for those who value the free market," spluttered Rush Limbaugh, a right-wing radio jock.
Clear Channel, a big radio firm, axed Howard Stern, a shock jock: he is going to satellite radio, free from indecency rules.
He never lost his enthusiasm for cutting taxes and expanding opportunities: virtues he had learnt as a not-so-dumb jock.
Bottom line: There's still hope for jock-nerd relations.
Tensions are greater in the UK, where the UK Independence party (Ukip) is riding high, but Australia has its share of white-is-right activists and shock-jock radio spruikers.
You can buy "I hate Hillary" T-shirts, mugs, mouse-mats and even jock-straps.
The battle of Bitterroot Style and substance The jock-in-chief Correction: the SEIU ReprintsThe oil-for-food scandal has been rumbling on pretty much since Saddam Hussein was deposed.
His show paved the way for the exhibitionism of reality TV, Jerry Springer's real-life exposés, and the shock-jock performances of Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck and Bill O'Reilly.
