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Definition

A host of a radio talk show.

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Origins

Invented in the 1970s.

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In Context

  • "In the 1970s, the term talk jockey was invented, meaning "host of a radio talk show," later shortened to the rhyming talk jock and instigating the coinage of shock jock for the host of a "shock" talk show of the 1990s."
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Also Said As

  • talk jock
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See Also

  • shock jock