Meaning

2 senses
  1. Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)

    1989 "'It's going to blow visibility to shit, too.' 'Roger that.'" Tom Clancy, Clear and Present Danger, p. 506.

  2. (idiomatic)Used to acknowledge receipt and understanding of a message

Origin

Extension of roger for received in radio traffic (by 1950), the pronoun referring to the l

Extension of roger for received in radio traffic (by 1950), the pronoun referring to the last information received; in use by 1969, popularised at first by radio transmissions from NASA's Apollo missions, later in military fiction.

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Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relatedcopy that

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