talk jockey

Invented in the 1970s.

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talk jockey (plural talk jockeys)

1. (idiomatic) A host of a radio talk show.
   • 1999, Allan Metcalf, David K. Barnhart, America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America

     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.

• talk jock

• shock jock