How to Use jockstrap in a Sentence

jockstrap

noun

• Salvador Dalí wears a catcher’s mask, while David — in a jockstrap — stands on the mound as if pitching from the stretch.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
• Long before there were jockstraps, codpieces scandalized the world in both art and life.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2019
• The Farmiga character eagerly takes the jockstrap out of the bag and drapes it over her head, then inhales deeply.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
• The jockstrap will probably go to the franchise owner, Alan Payne, who lives outside Austin, Texas.
  — Rachel D'oro, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
• One Butoh troupe placed him onstage in a small scarlet jockstrap.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• The jockstrap — sold at an auction Crowe had arranged to celebrate his divorce — went for $7,000.
  — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2018
• Oliver purchased the jockstrap and some other items and sent them to Anchorage, which has one of the last remaining big box store video chains.
  — Mark Thiessen, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2018
• Trey and Benjamin have a scene together, in which Trey is seated on the couch in nothing but one of Elliot’s jockstrap designs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Behind it are two bodies climbing up a wall, one wearing a sailor cap, a tiny blue vest with two white stars, and a jockstrap made of silver sequins.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2022
• But regardless of which version was the original one, jockstrap won out.
  — Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2019
• The final section has the performers stripping down to jockstraps and thongs and painting themselves in a rainbow of colors.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• The fate of Russell Crowe’s jockstrap, however, is thus far uncertain.
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 13 July 2018
• Ludovic de Saint Sernin currently sells a black leather tie-up jock, leaning fully into the concept of a jockstrap as lingerie.
  — Vogue, 3 June 2022
• The Kardashians star bared her butt while wearing a jockstrap for a new Interview magazine cover, which showed her with blonde hair and bleached eyebrows.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 6 Sep. 2022
• In anticipation of hard work, most also wore shorts, though a few guys had opted to gird their loins in a traditional fundoshi, a sort of jockstrap crossed with a thong.
  — Neil Shea, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• The couture house got a little risque with its Pride capsule range this year, including baseball caps, sports bras, shirts, bracelets, fake-fur coin purses and a jockstrap with a rainbow waistband.
  — Dan Avery, NBC News, 8 June 2021
• Some people prefer the mobility and freedom of a brief or even a jockstrap, but others prefer the coverage and support of a longer boxer brief.
  — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2023
• In this, the contestant wears only a jockstrap and is evaluated on their appearance.
  — Josephine Sedgwick, New York Times, 8 June 2018
• The Admirals have a history of catchy and sometimes boundary-pushing promotions from a mini-concert by Tiny Tim (the kitschy 1970s act known for his falsetto and ukulele) to pro wrestling to a jockstrap giveaway.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2022
• If Sonja is paying people to work, does that mean Will is now free to pursue the career of his dreams: modeling matching harness and jockstrap ensembles in my bedroom.
  — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2021
• People have made a fuss about Russell Crowe's leather jockstrap, which is coming to auction with an estimate of up to $461, but probably the most esoteric lot in a sale of the actor's belongings is a dead horse.
  — Bloomberg News, NOLA.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• No stranger to putting men in dresses, this season Browne shrank his signature pleated skirt to micro-minis and slung them so low that many a model's jockstrap was almost fully visible.
  — Samantha Tse, CNN, 1 July 2022
• Anchorage's sole remaining Blockbuster store will be getting that jockstrap of Russell Crowe's after all.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2018
• His installations include photographic self-portraits, along with black and white line drawings of himself in jockstraps and kaffiyehs, the Middle Eastern male head scarf.
  — Michael T. Luongo, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• His father, a biochemist by trade, knew little about the sport but got hooked too, later starting a business that exported equipment to South Korea, everything from jockstraps to rink-building supplies.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• In addition to the pleasures that experience afforded, the gun stuff was crowded into a single hall in McCormick Place, and was surrounded by other halls filled with golf balls and squash rackets and jockstraps.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 8 Mar. 2019
• In a more comic moment, Ringo appears in the documentary footage, uncomfortably chatting backstage with Bowie, who is wearing just a jockstrap, during a costume change.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 July 2023
• After several attempts, the infamous first working prototype was two jockstraps—a piece of supportive sports apparel invented for men in 1874–sewn together to serve as a pair of breast cups with shoulder straps.
  — Malissa Rodenburg, Outside Online, 1 Mar. 2023
• While the original Jockbra was actually made out of two jockstraps sewn together, now as this piece of functional underwear celebrates the 40th anniversary of its creation, the sports bra also celebrates just how far it’s come since then.
  — Emily Kirkpatrick, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• The moment Alfredo steps into the locker room of the fire station where his family’s influence gets him a job, men in jockstraps or fully nude test his knowledge of art history by re-creating famous paintings via suggestive poses.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024