jocker

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Noun

jocker (plural jockers)

1. (slang) A man who perceives himself as straight and is the aggressive top in a relationship between two men, especially in prison.
   • The jocker's sexual behavior can therefore be viewed as situational homosexuality.

     2012, "Men Behind Bars: Sexual Exploitation in Prison" By Wayne S. Wooden

   • More common than the reciprocal and mutually constituted homosexual associations between hoboes were the predatory relationships between older hoboes, or “jockers,” and young initiates, or “punks.”

     2010, Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America By Todd DePastino

   • As the "masculine" or "active" partner in prison sexual exchanges, jockers maintained a sexual identity as heterosexual

     2008, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality by Regina P. Kunzler