shock jock

noun

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: a radio personality noted for provocative or inflammatory commentary

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Maney is a New Jersey native who once interned with radio shock jock Howard Stern and also worked with radio personality Elvis Duran. — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2026 Mike Veeck, son of team owner Bill Veeck, hatched a plan to stop the hemorrhaging, inviting WLUP shock jock Steve Dahl to burn a crate of disco records on the field in the break between a White Sox and Detroit Tigers doubleheader. — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 7 June 2026 And like Limbaugh, who built himself from a radio shock jock to a media titan by feeding listeners’ grievances, Fuentes tells his audience a story that encourages them to channel their anxieties and frustrations into disdain and hate for women and non-white people. — Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Money, 6 June 2026 By the early 2000s, divisive shock jocks and hosts feeding on partisan anger dominated the radio dial. — Matthew Jordan, The Conversation, 20 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for shock jock

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First Known Use

1986, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of shock jock was in 1986

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