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jock strap

NOUN
athletic supporter
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Russell Crowe’s divorce auction this spring included, alongside the jock strap he wore during “Cinderella Man,” the mounted fossilized skull of Mosasaur.

From Slate Dec. 10, 2018

He remembered the middle-school Spanish teacher who felt angry and harassed when someone from my class put a jock strap on her dog, which she brought to school.

From Washington Post Sep. 20, 2018

When Lindahl's husband grabbed his jock strap from the laundry and wore it across his chest like a bra, the Jockbra, which would later become the Jogbra, was born.

From BBC Apr. 22, 2015

Prices run from $25 for a poster to $200 for a jock strap or $750 for boots with an incense holder or open toes.

From Seattle Times Nov. 28, 2012

From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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