rocker
pronunciation
How to pronounce rocker in British English:
UK [ˈrɒkə(r)]
How to pronounce rocker in American English:
US [ˈrɑkə(r)]
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- Noun:
- an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle
- a performer or composer or fan of rock music
- a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles
- a chair mounted on rockers
- a trough on rockers used by gold miners to shake earth in water in order to separate the gold
- an ice skate with a curved blade
- a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro
Word Origin
- rocker (n.)
- "a rocking chair," 1852, American English, from rock (v.1); earlier "nurse charged with rocking a cradle" (early 14c.). In sense of "one of the curved pieces of wood that makes a chair or cradle rock" it dates from 1787. Slang off (one's) rocker "crazy" first recorded 1897. Meaning "one who enjoys rock music" (as opposed to mod (n.1)) is recorded from 1963, from rock (v.2).
Example
- 1. Forbes and an irish rocker get together
- 2. I finished the book sitting on a white wire rocker on our front porch .
- 3. The punk rocker " didn 't take it very well , " he says .
- 4. David is maria 's partner now ; he wears dark clothes and his hair long , an old-style rocker with a big smile and even bigger heart .
- 5. In that multistranded 2007 film , mr. haynes used different actors , men and women , black and white , to represent bob dylan or , rather , the multiple identities ( folkie , mythmaker , rocker ) that this shape-shifting singer has assumed over his career .