What Came First? The Jock... or the Jock Strap...

That's what they're wondering...

Ha ha.

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Well, yesterday I was doing the laundry, and my husband (plays city league baseball) left his Jock Strap on the floor and I almost died tripping over it (I know, ew.) Needless to say I then stood there for fifteen minutes rubbing my toe (which I'd hit against the bedframe) and wondering what came first: The Jock, or the Jock Strap.

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Don't ask me why I thought this, but I just did.

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Did they name the Jock Strap ofter the Jock, or the Jock after the Jock Strap??

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So then last night at bowling I posed the question to my two friends and one of my friends husbands, who is a Sports Equipment Manager at Washington State University.

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Needless to say we couldn't formulate a good answer without giggling... Though I did bring up the idea that it came from Jockey, like the underwear brand...

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Today, the question still haunts me, so I decided to do some research and here's what I found:

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Info Courtesy Wikipedia

"The word jockstrap has purportedly been in use since 1897, a likely contraction of 'jockey strap', as the garment was first designed for bicycle riders, or 'bike jockeys'. The Bike Jockey Strap was the first jockstrap manufactured in America in 1874.[1][2] Jockey itself is the diminutive form of the Scots nickname Jock (for John) as Jackie is for the English nickname Jack. The nicknames Jack and Jackie, Jock and Jockey have been used generically for 'man, fellow, boy, common man'. From the period c.1650-c.1850, 'jock' was used as slang for... (I cut this part out, you get the drift...)

The more recent slang term 'jock', meaning an athlete, is traced to 1959 and is itself derived from 'jockstrap'.[3]"

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Ha! There was my answer! So Jock Strap did come first... good to know.

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As a woman, it is nice to know that one more mystery of the male world has been solved. Thank Goodness!