rocker

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/ˈɹɒk.ə(ɹ)/

noun

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01
noun
A curved support under a chair that lets it move back and forth.
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noun
Extra detail
A rocking chair.

Examples

The whole world is off its rocker.
That guy is off his rocker!

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

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noun

Extra meanings

The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
The breve below as in ḫ.

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"Girls & Boys" is […] also a tart, sneering rocker, full of ingenious musical gestures […]
"By Jove, old boy," said Cripps, assisting the curate up, "should have warned you about that chair - the infernal rockers are sawn off short, you know."
A few days before he turned 80 He was sittin' out back in a rocker

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"By Jove, old boy," said Cripps, assisting the curate up, "should have warned you about that chair - the infernal rockers are sawn off short, you know."
1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 14
The cradle-rockers had done hard duty for so many years, under the weight of so many children, on that flagstone floor, that they were worn nearly flat, in consequence of which a huge jerk accompanied each swing of the cot, flinging the baby from side to side like a weaver's shuttle, as Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30
A few days before he turned 80 He was sittin' out back in a rocker
2021, “Buy Dirt”, in Buy Dirt, performed by Jordan Davis
Like the editors of other Elamite texts, I omit the diacritic rocker from h in Elamite and from H in logograms in Elamite texts. I retain the rocker in ḫ and Ḫ in Sumerian and Akkadian.
1984, Matthew Wolfgang Stolper, Texts from Tall-i Malyan Elamite Administrative Texts (1972–1974) (Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund; 6), University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page XVII
Although the exact sound value of s remains uncertain, and there is only one such sibiliant in Hittite, it is traditionally transliterated with a so-called haček: š. This should not be taken, however, as evidence that it was a palatal sound (as sh in show). The same is true for the traditional “rocker” under the laryngeal ḫ: there is no other h-sign, and the diacritic is not strictly necessary.
2011, Theo van den Hout, The Elements of Hittite, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 13

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Origin

noun

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

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The famous blank— wore leather pants and sang loudly on stage.

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noun

The famous blank wore leather pants and sang loudly on stage.