rocker

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rocker (plural rockers)

  1. A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
    • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30:
      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.
  2. A rocking chair.
    • 2021, “Buy Dirt”, in Buy Dirt, performed by Jordan Davis:
      A few days before he turned 80
      He was sittin' out back in a rocker
  3. (surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
    All modern surfboards share a similar rocker design — Bruce Jones [1]
  4. The breve below as in ḫ.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 2011, Theo van den Hout, The Elements of Hittite, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 13:
      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.
    • 2019, John Huehnergard, “Proto-Semitic”, in Huehnergard, John and Na'ama Pat-El, editors, The Semitic Languages, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 15:
      Semitistic transliteration systems […] a number of features are common to most of them: […] ḫ (“h” with a “rocker,” conventionally called “hooked h”) for the voiceless velar/uvular fricative, IPA [x]/[χ], […]
  5. Someone passionate about rock music.
  6. A musician who plays rock music.
  7. (informal) A rock music song.
    • September 2010, Pitchfork Media, The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s [2]
      "Girls & Boys" is […] also a tart, sneering rocker, full of ingenious musical gestures […]
  8. One who rocks something.
    • 1660, Thomas Fuller, “Trusting maketh one Trusty”, in Mixt Contemplations in Better Times, London: […] R[oger] D[aniel] for Iohn Williams, […], →OCLC, page [75]:
      It was I Sir (ſaid the Rocker) who had the honour (ſome thirty years ſince) to attend on your Highneſs in your Infancie, […]
  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.
  13. A rocker board.
  14. A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
  15. A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
  16. (engineering) A rock shaft.
  17. (military) A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
    • 2000, Mark Collantes, The Academy, page 66:
      Cadet Sergeant First Class: 3 Chevrons and 2 rockers. Cadet Master Sergeant: 3 Chevrons and 3 rockers. Cadet First Sergeant: 3 Chevrons, 3 rockers with a diamond inset.

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Danish

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Noun

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rocker c (singular definite rockeren, plural indefinite rockere)

  1. An outlaw biker

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English rocker.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rocker m (plural rockers, diminutive rockertje n)

  1. a rocker (rock musician or rock fan)
  2. a rocker (rock song)
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French

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Etymology

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From rock +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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rocker

  1. to rock (play or enjoy rock music)

Conjugation

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Conjugation of rocker (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple rocker
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple rockant
/ʁɔ.kɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle rocké
/ʁɔ.ke/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present rocke
/ʁɔk/ 		rockes
/ʁɔk/ 		rocke
/ʁɔk/ 		rockons
/ʁɔ.kɔ̃/ 		rockez
/ʁɔ.ke/ 		rockent
/ʁɔk/
imperfect rockais
/ʁɔ.kɛ/ 		rockais
/ʁɔ.kɛ/ 		rockait
/ʁɔ.kɛ/ 		rockions
/ʁɔ.kjɔ̃/ 		rockiez
/ʁɔ.kje/ 		rockaient
/ʁɔ.kɛ/
past historic2 rockai
/ʁɔ.ke/ 		rockas
/ʁɔ.ka/ 		rocka
/ʁɔ.ka/ 		rockâmes
/ʁɔ.kam/ 		rockâtes
/ʁɔ.kat/ 		rockèrent
/ʁɔ.kɛʁ/
future rockerai
/ʁɔ.kʁe/ 		rockeras
/ʁɔ.kʁa/ 		rockera
/ʁɔ.kʁa/ 		rockerons
/ʁɔ.kʁɔ̃/ 		rockerez
/ʁɔ.kʁe/ 		rockeront
/ʁɔ.kʁɔ̃/
conditional rockerais
/ʁɔ.kʁɛ/ 		rockerais
/ʁɔ.kʁɛ/ 		rockerait
/ʁɔ.kʁɛ/ 		rockerions
/ʁɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		rockeriez
/ʁɔ.kə.ʁje/ 		rockeraient
/ʁɔ.kʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present rocke
/ʁɔk/ 		rockes
/ʁɔk/ 		rocke
/ʁɔk/ 		rockions
/ʁɔ.kjɔ̃/ 		rockiez
/ʁɔ.kje/ 		rockent
/ʁɔk/
imperfect2 rockasse
/ʁɔ.kas/ 		rockasses
/ʁɔ.kas/ 		rockât
/ʁɔ.ka/ 		rockassions
/ʁɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/ 		rockassiez
/ʁɔ.ka.sje/ 		rockassent
/ʁɔ.kas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — rocke
/ʁɔk/ 		— rockons
/ʁɔ.kɔ̃/ 		rockez
/ʁɔ.ke/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English rocker.

Noun

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rocker m (plural rockeri)

  1. rock music musician or fan

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative rocker rockerul rockeri rockerii
genitive-dative rocker rockerului rockeri rockerilor
vocative rockerule rockerilor

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English rocker.

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Noun

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rocker m (plural rockeres)

  1. (rare) rocker (rock musician)
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