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rocker

roc·ker

UK/ˈɹɒk.ə(ɹ)/ US/ˈɹɑ.kɚ/ fairly common informal uk

noun

1.

an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle

2.
3.

a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles

4.
5.

a trough on rockers used by gold miners to shake earth in water in order to separate the gold

Synonyms
6.

an ice skate with a curved blade

7.

a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro

Origin

From Middle English rokker, rockere, rokkere, equivalent to rock + -er.

Phrases

  • acoustic rocker
  • cock rocker
  • glam rocker
  • hard rocker
  • off one's rocker
  • platform rocker
  • punk rocker
  • rocker arm

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