Citations:rocks

English citations of rocks

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Normal mineralogical sense

• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.

  I heard then a voice saying, "Arise, ye dead, and come to judgement"; and with that the rocks rent, the graves opened, and the dead that were therein came forth.

• 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

  The Spirit did not tarry here, but bade Scrooge hold his robe, and passing on above the moor, sped — whither? Not to sea? To sea. To Scrooge's horror, looking back, he saw the last of the land, a frightful range of rocks, behind them; and his ears were deafened by the thundering of water, as it rolled and roared, and raged among the dreadful caverns it had worn, and fiercely tried to undermine the earth.

  Built upon a dismal reef of sunken rocks, some league or so from shore, on which the waters chafed and dashed, the wild year through, there stood a solitary lighthouse. Great heaps of sea-weed clung to its base, and storm-birds — born of the wind one might suppose, as sea-weed of the water — rose and fell about it, like the waves they skimmed.

Possible a rock-hard cock

A single testicle? A (kind of) projectile?

• 1998 February 24, “Murderer And Robber”, in Project Pat of Killa Klan Kaze (lyrics), Body Parts‎^[1], track 3, 1:24:

  Come up short, feel them slugs
  Of a tone in the back of your motherfuckin' head
  […]
  When I hit them bricks you fuck
  So is a rocks is in your face, it ain't no questions asked

Something that costs 4 USD in 2004? Or something for which you had to sell dope to four customers to afford?

• 2005 January 1, “Long Time Coming” (track 7, 2:07 from the start), in Cam’ron (lyrics), Diplomats Volume 5‎^[2]:

  That's just what I sold dope for tops
  For a second, 4 a rocks, for a burger, 4 a blocks
  Shot out to the 4 building it's like Fort Knox

Or diamonds?

• 2005 August 1, “Perfect” (track 16), in Princess Superstar (lyrics), My Machine‎^[3]:

  Feminine boss, don't care what it cost
  Get lost, we gettin' lots a rocks
  While bitches Botox, I blow cocks

Erection?

• 2021 December 11, “Raincoat”, NFN josh (lyrics), 0:32:

  I chop a brick, these diamonds be dancing
  She want a child, while I want a top
  Passenger side, she gives me a rocks

This man gets off sadistically?

• 2017, “Presence of My Life” (track 11), in Sam of The X Files (lyrics), Presence Of My Life‎^[4]:

  I can't wait to found her to take a good punish her
  Giving me a rocks that I can list the terror
  Wrong all day together when I fit the mirror
  Drilling the nail on my pictures to get love

hence: jackshit, a bugger, a damn, “couldn’t give a rocks” like “couldn’t give a toss”

• 2015 December 26, “Link Up Season” (track 19), in Chip of Dexplicit (lyrics), This Is UK Grime Vol. 5‎^[5]:

  You man forgot who's colder
  That's why I'm back now and everybody showed up
  And still couldn't give a rocks if you're older
  I'll take you, your gyal and over
  Fake MCs wanna diss me,

Jamaican Creole citations of rocks

(figurative) rocks in the road

• 2016 November 24, “No Want”, in Jahneration (lyrics), Jahneration‎^[6]:

  Say di road a full up a rocks and nuff a dem