Meaning

17 senses
  1. A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.

    Wiege, Wippe, Schaukelbrett

    коромы́слоkoromýslo, баланси́рbalansír

  2. A rocking chair.

    Schaukelstuhl

    кре́сло-кача́лкаkréslo-kačálka, кача́лкаkačálka

    a chair mounted on rockers

  3. 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. The breve below as in ḫ.

  5. Someone passionate about rock music.

    Rocker, Rockerin

    ро́керróker

    a performer or composer or fan of rock music

  6. A musician who plays rock music.

    Rocker, Rockerin, Rockmusiker

  7. (informal)A rock music song.

  8. One who rocks something.

    an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle

  9. (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.

  10. 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.

  11. A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.

  12. A rocking horse.

Examples

13 sentences
  1. Tom was sitting in his rocker.

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  2. You don't look like a punk rocker.

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  3. Tom is off his rocker.

    ruУ Тома не все дома.

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  4. Are you off your rocker?

    ruТы рехнулся?

    deHast du noch alle Tassen im Schrank?

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  5. Have you gone off your rocker?

    Ти з глузду з'їхав?

    ruТы спятил?

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
curved piece of wood:
Hence, a rocking chair:
Someone passionate about rock music:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
curved piece of wood:
Hence, a rocking chair:
Someone passionate about rock music:
musician who plays rock music:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: rockers
Singularrocker
Pluralrockers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold:cradle
  • a performer or composer or fan of rock music:rock 'n' roll musician
  • a chair mounted on rockers:rocking chair

Word family

24 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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