"Jock"

[Arnold Zwicky]

fred shapiro:
 >The "athlete" sense of jock is the one I was referring to -- what is
 >the "later preppie" sense?

the sense in eckert's 1989 book title, Jocks and Burnouts.  the
reference is to a jocks/preps vs. burnouts/freaks/druggies
distinction in a great many u.s. high schools.  the "jocks"
aren't necessarily athletes (nor are all athletes "jocks"),
but they are school- and college-oriented types in contrast to
the "burnouts", who are inclined to opt out and oppose "school
values".  (many students are neither, of course.  these are just
the highly polarized value sets.)

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)