1. Someone employed to ride horses in horse races
   "The jockey guided his mount to victory in the Kentucky Derby"
    
2. An operator of some vehicle, machine or apparatus
   "a disc jockey"; "he's a truck jockey"; "a computer jockey"

1. Ride a racehorse as a professional jockey
   "He jockeyed the favourite to victory"
    
2. Compete (for an advantage or a position)
   "The politicians jockeyed for the party nomination"
    
3. Defeat someone through trickery or deceit
   "The con artist jockeyed the unsuspecting victim out of their savings";
   - cheat, chouse [archaic], shaft [informal], screw [informal], chicane

Derived forms: jockeys, jockeying, jockeyed

Type of: beat, beat out, crush, equestrian, horseback rider, horse-race, maneuver [US], manipulator, manoeuvre [Brit, Cdn], operator, shell [US], trounce, vanquish

Encyclopedia: Jockey, Indiana