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Rocker   /rˈɑkər/   Listen
Rocker

noun
1.
An attendant who rocks a child in a cradle.
2.
A performer or composer or fan of rock music.  Synonym: rock 'n' roll musician.
3.
A teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles.
4.
A chair mounted on rockers.  Synonym: rocking chair.
5.
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.  Synonym: cradle.
6.
An ice skate with a curved blade.
7.
A curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro.



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"Rocker" Quotes from Famous Books



... simultaneously a glimmer in the old man's eye warned him against broaching, for the present, his desire to live abroad. He wished that Shuttleworth would have tact enough to leave the room—he detested Shuttleworth—but the secretary had settled blandly in a rocker and was dividing between the two Patches the ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... the back with its white and pink chintz curtains on the inside, and its frame of ivy on the outside, spoke of singing birds and sunshine all day long. Everything from the white ceiling to the sweet-smelling matting that covered the floor was spotlessly clean; the cane-bottomed rocker near the curved window-seat with its pretty pillows told of days when a convalescent might look in comfort at the garden beneath; the counterpane, with its old-fashioned rose pattern, the little white tidies on the back of each chair, and ...
— Polly of the Circus • Margaret Mayo



Words linked to "Rocker" :   stave, UK, Great Britain, trough, hobby, teenager, bikers, attender, support, rock, adolescent, hobbyhorse, attendant, stripling, United Kingdom, rung, player, teen, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, chair, Britain, shoofly, round, musician, rock star, ice skate, tender, rocking horse, instrumentalist, U.K.



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