Booze jockey is a British informal and pejorative term for an alcoholic — someone who 'rides' alcohol the way a jockey rides a horse, habitually and compulsively. The '-jockey' suffix (cf. 'desk jockey,' 'disc jockey') implies someone defined by their relationship to the thing they ride or operate. The register is dismissive and slightly unkind; it labels the person by their drinking habit in the same way 'disc jockey' labels someone by their relationship to records. Not a clinical term; used colloquially.
The landlord knew him as a regular booze jockey who'd be at the bar from opening until last orders.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(UK, slang, pejorative) An alcoholic.
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