vbl. sb. [f. JOCKEY v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb JOCKEY.
1. Horse-dealing; the riding and management of race-horses. Also attrib.
a. 1771. C. Smart, Duellist, 58. A thousand trifles not worth naming, In whoring, jockeying, and gaming.
1831. Mrs. Sherwood, Henry Milner, III. iii. 33. Unless Mr. Dalben thinks of bringing him up in the jockeying line.
2. Adroit management for the purpose of gaining an advantage, esp. an unfair one; trickery, cheating.
1807–8. W. Irving, Salmag. (1824), 293. In their zeal to get a good seat … a vast deal of jockeying and unfair play was shown.
c. 1810. Maria Edgeworth, Stories of Ireland, v. It’s not called swindling amongst gentlemen, who know the world: it’s only jockeying—fine sport—and very honourable, to help a friend, at a dead lift.
1858. O. W. Holmes, Aut. Breakf.-t., Race of Life, That turf where there is no more jockeying.
1897. W. M. Ramsay, in Brit. Weekly, 20 May, 78. No one among us will ever look back to it without blushing for the jockeying by which it was effected.
