English
rocker
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈɹɒkə(ɹ)/
Noun

rocker (plural rockers)

  1. A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
  2. A rocking chair.
  3. (surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
    All modern surfboards share a similar rocker design — Bruce Jones [https://web.archive.org/web/20051212041317/http://www.brucejones.com/longboar.htm]
  4. Someone passionate about rock music.
  5. A musician who plays rock music.
  6. (informal) A rock music song.
    • , The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s
      "Girls & Boys" is […] also a tart, sneering rocker, full of ingenious musical gestures […]
  7. One who rocks something.
    • It was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honour, some thirty years since, to attend on your highness in your infancy.
  8. (UK) A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
  9. Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
  10. A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
  11. A rocking horse.
  12. A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
  13. (engineering) A rock shaft.
Translations
  • Russian: коромы́сло
Translations
  • Italian: sedia a dondolo
  • Russian: кре́сло-кача́лка
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