rocker

[ rok-er ]
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noun
  1. Also called runner. one of the curved pieces on which a cradle or a rocking chair rocks.

  1. a performer or fan of rock-'n'-roll. music.

  2. a rock-'n'-roll song: She sang a ballad and followed that with two of her well-known rockers.

  3. any of various devices that operate with a rocking motion.

  4. Graphic Arts. a small steel plate with one curved and toothed edge for roughening a copperplate to make a mezzotint.

  5. an ice skate that has a curved blade.

Idioms about rocker

  1. off one's rocker, Slang. insane; crazy: You're off your rocker if you think I'm going to climb that mountain.

Origin of rocker

1
1400–50; late Middle English: one who rocks a cradle; see rock2, -er1

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British Dictionary definitions for rocker

rocker

/ (ˈrɒkə) /


noun
  1. any of various devices that transmit or operate with a rocking motion: See also rocker arm

  2. another word for rocking chair

  1. either of two curved supports on the legs of a chair or other article of furniture on which it may rock

  2. a steel tool with a curved toothed cage, used to roughen the copper plate in engraving a mezzotint

  3. mining another word for cradle (def. 9)

    • an ice skate with a curved blade

    • the curve itself

  4. 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

  5. a rock-music performer, fan, or song

  6. British an adherent of a youth movement rooted in the 1950s, characterized by motorcycle trappings: Compare mod 1

  7. off one's rocker slang crazy; demented

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Other Idioms and Phrases with rocker

rocker

see off one's head (rocker).

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