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roc

[ rok ]

noun

, Arabian Mythology.
  1. a bird of enormous size and strength.


roc

1

/ rɒk /

noun

  1. (in Arabian legend) a bird of enormous size and power
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ROC

2

abbreviation for

  1. Royal Observer Corps
“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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of roc1

1570–80; < Arabic rukhkh, probably < Persian rukh; rook 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of roc1

C16: from Arabic rukhkh , from Persian rukh
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Example Sentences

A Rochester (ROC) passenger approached a ticket counter to check in and stated to the ticket agent that he had a bomb in his bag.

The two were best buds and, along with Kareem Burke, founded the label Roc-A-Fella Records together in 1995.

Roc Nation did not respond to multiple requests to confirm that they had signed the rapper to their label.

Producers Timbaland, Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon and Rodney Jerkins are all at the top of their game working with Jackson.

Ronson landed a deal as the self-described “white girl with the acoustic guitar on Roc-a-Fella.”

Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"

As Davy stood in the road, in doubt which way to go, a Roc came around the corner of the house.

There was a young roc in it just ready to be hatched, and its bill had begun to appear.

They retired in the daytime to their dens, where they hid themselves from the roc, their enemy, and came out only in the night.

The other roc, to our misfortune, threw his burden so exactly upon the middle of the ship, as to split it into a thousand pieces.

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