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[ rok-er ] / ˈrɒk ər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR rocker ON THESAURUS.COM
nounAlso called runner. one of the curved pieces on which a cradle or a rocking chair rocks. rocking chair. a performer or fan of rock-'n'-roll. music. a rock-'n'-roll song: She sang a ballad and followed that with two of her well-known rockers. any of various devices that operate with a rocking motion. Graphic Arts. a small steel plate with one curved and toothed edge for roughening a copperplate to make a mezzotint. Mining. cradle (def. 13). an ice skate that has a curved blade. Idioms for rockeroff one's rocker, Slang. insane; crazy: You're off your rocker if you think I'm going to climb that mountain.
Origin of rocker1400–50; late Middle English: one who rocks a cradle; see rock2, -er1 Words nearby rockerrock-eel, Rockefeller, Rockefeller, John D., Rockefeller, Nelson, rock elm, rocker, rocker arm, rocker cam, rocker panel, rockery, rocket Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for rockerThe rocker posted a rambling video on his Facebook page claiming he's broke and penniless. Creed Singer Scott Stapp’s Fall From Grace: From 40 Million Albums Sold to Living in a Holiday Inn|Marlow Stern|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST Now, Cooke is out with a memoir detailing his time with the rocker. Janis Joplin’s Kozmic Blues|William O’Connor|November 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST In 2000, Rocker was suspended by MLB, and by 2001 he was traded with his pitching in serious decline. Mark Cuban Warns That Basketball Players Could Get the Sterling Treatment Next|Evan Weiner|June 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST There was never a call for a boycott of the games of the team that employed Rocker. Mark Cuban Warns That Basketball Players Could Get the Sterling Treatment Next|Evan Weiner|June 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It looks like the rocker wants to showcase all sides of her life. Phoenix, Ciara & More Best Music Videos of the Week (VIDEO)|Victoria Kezra|July 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST She paused as she placed a rocker at the disposal of the stranger, and relieved her of coat and hat. The Forged Note|Oscar Micheaux Seven years have passed, and Beth sits leaning back in a rocker by the window, in the soft bright moonlight of Palestine. Beth Woodburn|Maud Petitt Please, Sir, there was a very stiff bully down at rocker this afternoon, and Rawson and I got tokered badly. The Secret Glory|Arthur Machen I dug out the earth, another carried it, and a third washed it in the rocker. A Voyage round the World|W.H.G. Kingston They used but one rocker, and have no doubt that they could have done much better with proper appliances. Handbook to the new Gold-fields|R. M. Ballantyne
British Dictionary definitions for rocker
nounany of various devices that transmit or operate with a rocking motionSee also rocker arm another word for rocking chair either of two curved supports on the legs of a chair or other article of furniture on which it may rock a steel tool with a curved toothed cage, used to roughen the copper plate in engraving a mezzotint mining another word for cradle (def. 9) - an ice skate with a curved blade
- the curve itself
skating - a figure consisting of three interconnecting circles
- a half turn in which the skater turns through 180°, so facing about while continuing to move in the same direction
a rock-music performer, fan, or song British an adherent of a youth movement rooted in the 1950s, characterized by motorcycle trappingsCompare mod 1 off one's rocker slang crazy; demented Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with rocker
see off one's head (rocker). The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to rockersturdy, tight, strong, substantial, stable, credible, sensible, ethical, authoritative, authentic, accurate, responsible, convincing, honest, realistic, dependable, mature, believable, upright, honorable |